Patreon handles EU VAT and similar digital VAT for its users. Otherwise each and every one of those donations will need to be handled and filed by the creators.

Patreon handles EU VAT and similar digital VAT for its users. Otherwise each and every one of those donations will need to be handled and filed by the creators. To illustrate how bad it can get - in EU VAT, if your yearly sales are over 30,000 Euros (it may even be 10k, I don't know the latest limit), you have to charge your customers/patrons the appropriate tax rate of the country that they are in. And if you don't, you may end up having to deal with the tax authority of that particular country. People take this lightly, but as many are finding out, its serious business. ... And - fraud is not handled by Paypal. Any chargeback, fraud, refund is your responsibility. You can even get your Paypal suspended for those reasons.