Folks,
Our CTO and I have studied Stripe Atlas and would greatly like to use it. there are just a couple grey areas that Stripe could probably easily help with - and if they did, for startups like RiteKit, going with Atlas would be an easy decision.
Yes, we are ready and happy to pay far more per transaction than we do with Braintree when we switch to Stripe. I'd be happy to explain why, if anyone cares.
Startup heads generally are against knowledge-hoarding, and this is something lawyers tend to do. What I'm going to ask, I've asked in several forums, Facebook Groups, and of course, have asked Stripe directly. What I get in terms of a reply is a polite knowledge-hoard: "you get one free consultation with a lawyer when you pay for Stripe Atlas." Our stance is that Stripe should address common questions in https://stripe.com/atlas/guides.
I'm eager to learn what others who wish to move their startup/project to the U.S. would like to know before they flip the switch on Atlas. I'll start with my two main issues:
- SITUATION:
To be able to offer unemployment and government health insurance to our Czech employee, and because we initially started with more people in Prague than anywhere else, we made RiteKit an asset of a Czech s.r.o.** (non-public corporation). We would like to remove RiteKit, and it's assets, which has been paying Czech business tax for years, from the s.r.o. and form a new DEL-C corp. in the U.S.
QUESTION:
What is the easiest and least expensive way to remove a profitable, Czech tax-paying asset from under the umbrella of a Czech s.r.o. and move ownership of it's websites, apps, etc. to a new DEL-C corp?
While I would not expect country-specific information, I would like to appeal to Stripe to please provide a page in https://stripe.com/atlas/guides on the factors, costs to anticipate, pitfalls to avoid, etc. on the topic of:
- How to remove a startup from the umbrella of a foreign corporation and form a new one (with Stripe Atlas)
- SITUATION:
We need to know what we should expect to pay - after the first free year that is included with Atlas, for local agent fees.
QUESTION:
Exactly how will this be calculated, after the first free year? Just as, when a cloud-hosting company offer to match our current server capacity use for two years free, we immediately need to know, right, and then...? Or a credit card, even, when they tempt you with a first-year-free offer, the first thing you check, after APR, is, and then? So, please: give us a way to understand what we'll be paying for a local agent after that first free year.
**s.r.o.: Some key points of an s.r.o. include:
- Does not issue shares
- Minimum basic capital is Euro 6.500
- Corporate governance is simpler than a joint-stock company
- A Board of Directors is not required
- The statutory body is made up of one or more Executive Directors
@csallen If you can facilitate getting someone who's responsible for the proliferation of Stripe Atlas to get involved with this, I'd be grateful.