El fondo de educación y promoción en cooperativas de crédito: su gestión con o sin una fundación

Abstract

Credit unions should allocate a percentage of its surplus to the Education, Training and Development Fund (ETDF) for less than 10% of it, even the part from the results from transactions with non-members. No doubt, credit unions are the cooperatives with the highest surplus and ETDF to manage. Some of these credit unions manage their ETDF through a foundation, since the ends of the ETDF are compatible and they can provide with higher amounts to the Foundation or the ETDF. The Law 20/90 of cooperatives’ taxation and the Law 49/2002 of non-profit organizations’ taxation incentive a favorable treatment. This work make a comparable analysis of economic performances of these credit unions. Thus, we consider two alternative models, with or without foundation. The aim of this analysis is to evaluate the optimization of the resources for these purposes, emphasizing the tax burden, the resources and income after tax and allocations of the two systems. The analysis is made through spreadsheets iteration