On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:37 AM, Zsolt Vasvari <[email protected]> wrote: > In all countries, with the notable exception of the US, you pay taxes where > you earn them. If you are a US national/PR, the US government expect you > pay US taxes no matter where you earned the money. The first $X is a > foreign tax credit which means you don't pay double taxes on the first $X > you earn. X is around $95,000 these days. Anyway, this is the general > idea, and I am not a tax accountant, so don't take this as an advice. With > any questions, you need to consult a professional tax accountant.
No worries, fortunately I don't have to deal with this problem anymore. I had to though when we first got involved with Android, and our plan B was exactly what the OP describes. We figured it should work from Google point of view (as Rudolf confirms) however we saw no good way to figure out the taxes. Where exactly you earn money can be a tricky question for someone sitting in country A, using a sort of a proxy entity in country B to sell stuff to someone else in country C, with the actual transaction happening on Google servers in country D (most likely the U.S.). I wouldn't be surprised at all if the logic (with respect to OP's situation) was "Google deals with a Czech entity who has a Czech street address and a Czech bank account, ergo someone's making profit in CZ and has to pay Czech taxes". Or something like that. Now, if he also lives there he has to pay Czech taxes anyway. The interesting case would be if he lives in Serbia, as that would indicate Serbia might be the place of his tax residence (depending on local laws) which would mean he'd have to pay Serbian taxes as well. So there seems to be a plausible argument for paying Czech taxes, and a plausible argument for paying Serbian taxes. Now I won't be paying any money to anyone to figure this out as I don't *have* to know currently, I just thought I'd ask in case somebody here has some experience or knowledge about this. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
