>E.g. I'm from Massachusetts and I have to collect taxes from customers from >MA. I then have to pay that taxes to the government. It is my >responsibility. I can get a sales report from Google and figure out what >sales taxes i have to submit to the state and what income taxes to submit >to the federal and state government. Google does not pay the taxes for me.
>You are selling stuff. It is a business and it comes with business >processes such as paying income and sales taxes. OK. I can also handle local/national sales tax (VAT). (And let us forget income tax here, That is appliccable to all, and it has not changed.) But HOW do I get to know about the VAT of all the other countries I sell apps to, and their thresholds for paying tax/VAT? What about the VAT I have collected, which lies below the threshold of a partciular country? Can I keep it? OR- if I have not charged any VAT in a country, can they still charge me for the VAT that they claim I SHOULD HAVE collected? Regardless of how one looke at this, this is obviously NOT GOING TO WORK. I guess that lots of us deveopers will NOT be able to handle this properly. How does APPLE handle this? Regards, Terry On 30 Mai, 20:24, Streets Of Boston <flyingdutc...@gmail.com> wrote: > My understanding is that Google is not your dealer. It is your agent and > payment processor. It's a market not a store. You were and will be > responsible for paying taxes, before this change to Google Play and after > this change to Google Play. Nothing changed here. > > E.g. I'm from Massachusetts and I have to collect taxes from customers from > MA. I then have to pay that taxes to the government. It is my > responsibility. I can get a sales report from Google and figure out what > sales taxes i have to submit to the state and what income taxes to submit > to the federal and state government. Google does not pay the taxes for me. > > You are selling stuff. It is a business and it comes with business > processes such as paying income and sales taxes. > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 1:50:31 PM UTC-4, Terry wrote: > > > On 30 Mai, 19:09, Streets Of Boston <flyingdutc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Generally, yes. If you sell stuff you need to pay taxes (sales > > taxes/VAT) > > > on it. > > > Yes. But until recently, when goods were sold from one country to > > another, there was no VAT. > > Is that no longer true? > > > If not, shall every Android developer keep track of which country > > requires VAT to be included - and which country does not - when goods > > are being sold from another/particular country? > > > > But If you are not selling more than a certain dollar (or other > > currency) > > > amount to users in a given country, don't expect a taxman to bang on > > your > > > door trying to collect from you.Only after a certain threshold you are > > > required to pay taxes. > > > WHO is goind to keep track of such tresholds? Each developer? > > > I thought that it was the DEALER (i.e. Google) who should be > > responsible for collecting/paying taxes, and not each contributor/ > > developer? > > > This may be the end of the Google Play Store. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
