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Don't confuse an association with a company

Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 9:03 am
by Mitu3339
The market has shrunk: It is also common for the market to stop growing because the customer life cycle is coming to an end. Therefore, the short-term solution is to retain customers and take them away from the competition.

Our salespeople's activity has dropped: before placing blame, let's analyze whether it is due to our marketing variables (obsolete product, price increase, poor promotion or distribution). If it is a problem with our salespeople, we will have to see if it is a general problem in order to establish motivation programs for salespeople.

The competition has launched new marketing actions: we will have to review whether these actions have left us in a worse position. And above all, we will have to analyze them and establish a strategy in accordance with the laws and principles of marketing .
when trying to choose the ideal corporate form to carry out a business project. At first glance, an association is understood as an entity with certain tax advantages that other companies do not have and with exemptions from certain taxes, such as VAT. This can lead to the mistaken belief that it is possible to create an association to carry out a business and thus enjoy all the advantages. But this is not the case.

An association is an entity in which a group of individuals join together to carry out a purpose other than making a profit. This is the fundamental aspect that phone number for thailand differentiates it from a company. In companies, the economic nature is predominant. The partners seek to make a profit. If I intend to set up a business to make money, I will not choose to create an association but a company.

Associations can have different characteristics, depending on their ultimate goal. There are cultural or artistic associations, which seek to promote or spread different activities: music, painting, dance, sports... There are also charitable or social interest associations, which are formed to help the disadvantaged. There are neighborhood associations or parent associations, among many others.

What is possible is that an association, apart from the essential dedication to the fulfillment of its purposes, carries out an accessory economic activity , as would be the case of a tennis club that organizes tournaments and charges for displaying advertisements on the fences of the venue. Or that of a neighborhood association that has a premises and rents a space to a company to set up a bar. In such a case, the entity will have to register in the IAE that corresponds to that second activity and present the appropriate fiscal obligations ( taxes ): Corporate Tax, VAT (if applicable) or any other that may be applicable.