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Thanks CD - I am looking for something where I can offer my time (lots of folks offer money, but few offer time). I do have a soft corner for children and education - so if you know of anything in this area, please do pass it on to me. I am also interested in getting involved with folks who are ...

Hi, I am looking for any charitable institutions or NGOs in the Pune area - we r2i-ed 6 months back, and are slowly settling down now, and I wanted to get involved with some social work on a part-time basis, but am a little stuck on how to get started. I looked up things like CRY, Habitat for ...

Maybe I am the odd one out and will be flamed to no end ... but still I'll pose my question.

Why would anyone r2i and send kids to international schools ? Its not a question of $$, but wouldnt these elite international schools amount to cocoon-ing the kids ?

Yes I will provide a US address for the company and this is where payments would be made.

Any ideas on what is a better option - sole proprietorship, LLC, S corp, C corp etc ?

Sorry about that .. yes, my whole family is USC.

Hello Gurus, We r2i-ed couple months back and now I have an offer to work independently for a US company, on an hourly basis, from India. For this, I would have to incorporate myself in the US. Any thoughts on how I would do that from India ? Also, how would that affect my tax status in the US and ...

We moved to Pune in August '07 and would love to be a part of such a group ... though we'd currently be more interested in "family friendly" trips, having two small kids (4yr and 4month) !

How does having a Joint FD account affect taxes for both account holders ? Lets suppose that we have a FD in my wife's name and my name (either or survivor option), with her name being the first name. For this, assume that the funds for the FD came from my wife working in the US. I dont believe in ...

Since I was the one to post the original question, I wanted to share what we've finally settled upon. We moved to Pune about 6 weeks ago and started looking at cars almost immediately. We had decided upon one small and one large car. For the small car we considered Santro, Getz and City. The Santro ...

Nickname : r2i_puneite
Month/year returned: Aug 2007
Current city where you live : Pune
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