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Wow great point. Now why the hell can't they have a donation link?
by acollins1331 7y ago
Wow great point. Now why the hell can't they have a donation link?
- Spivak 7y agoBecause you can't use Google's store as a sales funnel without giving them a 30% cut. It doesn't matter if you're a company taking payments or an individual accepting donations.
- ViViDboarder 7y agoWrong. You can’t even use Google with giving them a 30% cut since donations are prohibited from Google Payments.
- BlueTemplar 7y agoI'm not a lawyer, but aren't sales and donations quite different? For instance donations tend to have negative taxes...
- 0xEFF 7y agoNot unless your entity is 503(c) tax-exempt which is explicitly allowed by Google. These “donations” are more like tips, which are treated as taxable income. I don’t see the problem here. The outrage in this thread seems more about people wanting a different set of rules for OSS and possibly avoiding income tax than anything else. If there are a different set of rules for OSS, then that just makes it easier to abuse the platform. Google’s policy seems fair to me.
- rleigh 7y ago"Tips" might well be taxable income. But that doesn't automatically entitle Google to a cut of them. Talk about a greedy land grab.
- BlueTemplar 7y agoHmm, yeah, I guess that if we want patronage to become a viable economic model, then it will have to be taxed at some point... Since I mostly give to (AFAIK) tax-exempt entities, I didn't think of this... But neither seems to have Google ! While the global license/patronage debates are already a decade old, and we have seen new companies get started and even established in this sector (Patreon). For instance this "donations" page only seems to cover non-profits ? https://www.google.com/nonprofits/offerings/google-donation-tools/ https://www.google.com/nonprofits/offerings/google-donation-...