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At first this sounds crazy but the article makes it clearer that really they're talking about taxing revenue earned in the US from US viewers. That's not quite
by Lio 6y ago
At first this sounds crazy but the article makes it clearer that really they're talking about taxing revenue earned in the US from US viewers.
That's not quite so unreasonable as long as it's reciprocated for US creators operating in foreign markets. i.e. you pay taxes where the viewers are, not (only) where the creator is.
If you don't submit any tax details they'll go after your full world wide revenue as they don't know where it was earned, so it will be important to do that.
I guess it could all be avoided if YouTube added a feature to allow creators from the rest of the world hide content from US viewers but that's probably not part of their business plan.
- ceph_ 6y agoYou're suggesting that content creators should have to file taxes in every country they have viewers? That's absurd.
- Lio 6y agoYou are misrepresenting what I’ve said. You either tax everyone equally or tax no one at all. There shouldn’t be a special case where one government is able to tax foreign nationals for access to their market but no other government is able to reciprocate.