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The app was published many years ago by Whitescape, the agency we owned at that point. I was born in Russia 35+ years ago. But now I'm the resident of Canada. G
by igordebatur 5y ago
The app was published many years ago by Whitescape, the agency we owned at that point. I was born in Russia 35+ years ago. But now I'm the resident of Canada. Google has never asked me about this.
But even that must not be the case: since then the Google Play account and it's payment profile are associated with Riders app Inc (the US Delaware c-corp) and our new bank account is with Mercury (Evolve bank and Trust)
- mike_d 5y agoThe owner of the app is a company with a Russian nexus. Do you have a formal asset transfer agreement that moved the ownership of the app and all related assets to your Delaware corporation? Did the original company receive anything of value in exchange for all the assets? Can that agreement be independently verified? These are the things I would personally look for in an investigation to determine if "Riders app Inc" was a corporation of convenience or the actual owner of the app.
- igordebatur 5y agoYes, we've transferred the ownership and it's obvious in the Google Play's dashboard, I triple checked. All the IP's belong to Riders App Inc, the domain etc. The company is properly structured.
- mike_d 5y agoSo respond back to Google with the wire receipts where you paid Whitescape for the app and divested yourself of any ownership in that entity.
- igordebatur 5y agoHow's so? The problem lasts from 2 months ago. The original issue couldn't be about any ties with Russia. I'll still try to do that ^ but not sure if this could help.
- mdoms 5y agoOk so it's very clear that you've been rightly caught up in Russian sanctions. Your recourse is to put pressure on the Russian government of which you are a citizen.
- igordebatur 5y agoNope: I'm not a resident of Russia, neither other shareholders. This is not the case. And the problem is ongoing for 2 months+. I understand the willingness to bring this, but currently this is not the case.
- temp8964 5y agoBut you are a citizen of Russia? Do you pay tax to Russia?
- igordebatur 5y agoNo I don't pay tax to Russia, I happily stopped when I moved to Canada.
- vmception 5y agoYou can count on one hand the number of countries that tax their citizens who earn outside of their country.
- cute_boi 5y agoI personally think its egregious to tax people when they aren't using any resource from the country where they don't live. Tax is mainly collected for development of nation, at least that's what government says.
- vmception 5y agoYes, that is what they say, what they do is largely different. The outcome, and my current view, is that the threat of taxes incentives other kinds of transactions, and when those transactions are not pursued then the remainder of the money available is taxed. This means do the transactions that are not tax events, do the transactions that are deductible expenses, do the transactions that result in tax credits. Invest in the area or sector experiencing the tax holiday, move to the area with the tax exemption. No individual politician will say it that way, any individual politician will say the opposite “tax everyone, fair share, yada yada”, but they are politicians, and the political body in aggregate creates tax laws more similar to my observation. And yes, I can acknowledge that there is a very limited number of things that a wage slave can do to reduce taxes. The tax code awards taking risks, this doesn't mean the employee wont fail and have no remaining ability to exchange time for food and shelter. But if you dont fail, it will continue rewarding you.