Le fondateur de Facebook devient papa et annonce le don de 99% de ses actions
▻http://www.rtbf.be/info/medias/detail_le-fondateur-de-facebook-devient-papa-et-annonce-le-don-de-99-de-ses-act
Ah ?
Le patron-fondateur de Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg et son épouse Priscilla Chan ont annoncé mardi la naissance de leur premier enfant, une fille, ainsi que le don au cours de leurs vies de 99% de leurs actions à une nouvelle fondation, la « Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ».
Ah OK...
commentaire à vérifier (vu sur twitter merci @0gust1)
Its a private LLC that will also make investments & engage in lobbying. No charitable status whatsoever.
[EDIT] Source NYT :
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/technology/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-charity.html
By using a limited liability company instead of a nonprofit corporation or foundation, the Zuckerberg family will be able to go beyond making philanthropic grants. They will invest in companies, lobby for legislation and seek to influence public policy debates, which nonprofits are restricted from doing under tax laws. (...) “We must build technology to make change.
Sur l’évasion fiscale chez FB
▻http://www.taxjusticeblog.org/archive/2015/01/facebooks_record-setting_stock.php
Il n’y a guère que les #accapareurs pour avoir les moyens d’être aussi généreux.
et voilà… ▻https://twitter.com/zubakskees/status/671926263020453888
Si je résume : il va mettre 99% de ses parts de Facebook dans une société privée à but lucratif, enregistrée dans un paradis fiscal, afin de faire du lobbying
L’adresse mentionnée domicilie au moins 285 sociétés…
▻http://www.buzzfile.com/Search/Company/Results?searchTerm=¶meter=PlaceId--20367955%2B&type=1&sort=Name&search
dont Monsanto, McDonald’s, McKinsey France, …
mais pas Alphabet…
Facebook, une générosité controversée
Xavier Oberson, professeur de droit fiscal à l’UNIGE. Après la naissance de leur fille, le patron de Facebook Mark Zuckerberg et son épouse ont annoncé vouloir, au cours de leur vie, reverser 99% de leurs actions à leur nouvelle fondation caritative.
Pourquoi Zucky a-t-il décidé de sortir Facebook du champ concurrentiel ? — PipoBingo dot com — Medium
▻https://medium.com/pipo-bingo/pourquoi-zucky-a-t-il-d%C3%A9cid%C3%A9-de-sortir-facebook-du-champ-concurren
Il fait des conneries, des dettes et on ne peut pas lui piquer l’oseille. Plus à lui. Sa meuf se casse… Pas de pognon, chérie. Tu le vois le filou. Personne !!! Pas même des compagnies, des juridictions étrangères, toussa. Enfin personne sauf l’état américain pour des raisons de défense nationale qui surveille comme dab. Héhé. Donc… finalement… d’une certaine manière… sur le mode à la cool de l’América… en douce… en dehors des traités internationaux, toussa, machin… on pourrait dire que… de facto… Facebook est presque… nationalisé.
Mark Zuckerberg and the Rise of Philanthrocapitalism - The New Yorker
▻http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/mark-zuckerberg-and-the-rise-of-philanthrocapitalism
(As Matthew Yglesias pointed out on Vox, one of the advantages of registering the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative as an L.L.C. is that it can spend money on political ads.) The more money billionaires give to their charitable foundations, which in most cases remain under their personal control, the more influence they will accumulate. And relatively speaking, anyway, the less influence everybody else will have.
How Mark Zuckerberg’s Altruism Helps Himself - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/business/dealbook/how-mark-zuckerbergs-altruism-helps-himself.html
So what are the tax implications? They are quite generous to Mr. Zuckerberg. I asked Victor Fleischer, a law professor and tax specialist at the University of San Diego School of Law, as well as a contributor to DealBook. He explained that if the L.L.C. sold stock, Mr. Zuckerberg would pay a hefty capital gains tax, particularly if Facebook stock kept climbing.
If the L.L.C. donated to a charity, he would get a deduction just like anyone else. That’s a nice little bonus. But the L.L.C. probably won’t do that because it can do better. The savvier move, Professor Fleischer explained, would be to have the L.L.C. donate the appreciated shares to charity, which would generate a deduction at fair market value of the stock without triggering any tax.
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is a marketing tool, not a charity
▻https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-marketing-tool-charity-baselt-steiger
the Chan-Zuckerbergs have not pledged to donate anything. They’ve pledged to “give away” the huge majority of their Facebook shares, which is easy to mistake as the same thing. But the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is not a non-profit. It’s a limited liability company [*LLC] and it’s owned by Mark Zuckerberg. The Initiative is not obligated to donate anything to anyone. When the Chan-Zuckerbergs say they will “give away” their wealth, that *includes “giving it away” by investing in for-profit corporations, primarily ones focused on education technology: $5 million to MasteryConnect and $15 million to AltSchool last month alone.
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An LLC gives Zuckerberg much more control over the organization, and as far as I can tell, there’s not much to prevent the Initiative from “giving away” money to Big Oil and Haliburton down the road, if Zuckerberg decides that’s what he wants to do.
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The Initiative is different because it’s a company deliberately designed to look like a charity, but with none of the accountability or transparency that comes with being a charitable non-profit or private foundation.
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But Facebook’s quiet rebranding, thanks to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is reminding users of Facebook as we used to perceive it: Facebook the Charity. Facebook the Charity is providing an always-free service to the public! Facebook the Charity is connecting you with your best friend from elementary school! Facebook the Charity reminds you to vote and facilitates donations during national disasters! Facebook the Charity lets you share cute cat videos to your heart’s content! We can trust Facebook the Charity!
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What I will say is that Mark Zuckerberg is smart. As a non-profit professional, I caution against the blurring of lines between true charities and for-profit companies whose products happen to make our lives a little easier or provide some amount of social value. But as a Facebook advertiser, I also open my arms wide and welcome the masses back to a seemingly trustworthy Facebook. Go ahead, tell Facebook everything about yourself—I’ve got a great ad to show you.
Article écrit par quelqu’un qui est Fundraiser and marketer in the non-profit sector
We Don’t Want Mark Zuckerberg’s Charity
Every dollar in Mark Zuckerberg’s private charity is a dollar wrested from public coffers — and democratic control.
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/12/facebook-zuckerbergs-charity-gates-philantrophy