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At your scale you may just want to give it to them for free or not take the customer. It's unlikely they will come after you for this amount I'd say, but if you
by janosdebugs 3y ago
At your scale you may just want to give it to them for free or not take the customer. It's unlikely they will come after you for this amount I'd say, but if you grow bigger I can imagine this coming back to haunt you. I also don't know if you'd be subject to UAE commercial law if you take a customer from there, there are some jurisdictional norms in place you may have to explicitly disclaim in your terms of service. You can get sued internationally and that gets really expensive.
Talk to a lawyer, talk to a tax attorney. Don't take legal advice from the Internet since your situation is likely not going to match the person's who answers.
- seabass 3y agoAbsolutely, I want to do everything by the book, which is why I went through their VAT registration process despite it being only $5 in UAE income. The other point you raise you raise about commercial law I will keep in mind. An attorney for something earning me $50 isn't doable for me right now, but I am surprised this isn't a more commonly discussed issue. The number of small-time sellers of all sorts of global online products is massive. Anyway, current plan is to get an MoR to handle foreign taxes going forward.
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- jimkleiber 3y agoI can't speak for others but I'll say that I haven't wanted to discuss it in public very often, and even fear typing this now, because of fear of accidentally breaking the law and having public record of me being aware of it. At the same time, how do we change the laws if we don't talk about them? I find the governance of the internet to be absurd, especially as it relates to VAT/sales tax. I think it's mostly non-global governments trying to govern a global space.