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My main problem with the Google Cloud Storage as an individual customer in Germany is this: https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6090602?hl=en https://suppor
by skrause 11y ago
My main problem with the Google Cloud Storage as an individual customer in Germany is this: https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6090602?hl=en https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6090602?hl=en
Since I can't find a way to set my account status to "personal" I'm somehow personally responsible to pay VAT (I wouldn't even know how to do that) if I don't want to risk getting problems with our version of the IRS. That doesn't sound like a nice way to do my personal backups.
On AWS that's not a problem, Amazon bills and pays the VAT for me.
- christop 11y agoAs nonsensical as it is, you're not meant to be using Google Cloud Platform as an individual user at all. From that same page: "Google Cloud Platform services can be used only for business purposes in the European Union."
- djhworld 11y agoSeems like AWS has capitalised on the gap to target the hobbyist AND enterprise markets, whereas google doesn't really want that.
- boulos 11y agoSorry. That's all any of us on Google Cloud can usefully say about the damn VAT issue. We've got people working on it, but it's a Google wide issue (and I honestly don't understand the last mile enough to know why we don't do exactly what you describe AWS doing). As a side reply to the poster below, it's not true that we're trying to exclude individuals. There are lots of happy, individual customers all over the world. We unfortunately just didn't get out ahead of this personal service / VAT thing as a company. So again, Sorry! And someone is working on it, but don't expect any immediate fixes when taxes/regulations/laws are involved.