Is there any way to transform them to another format? Incidentally, is there anyone that knows if Android/Google is going to work with carriers to allow payments of apps to appear on phone bill instead of using mundane checkout process? Maybe it is me, but setting up the iTunes process seems far easier than dealing with google checkout. I mean, if you are on your device, and go to buy an app, then have to use that device to set up the google account stuff.. it's horrific from what I've seen and been told. I have messed with google checkout apis a while ago, not sure if they've gotten better, but still, it seems the way to make it SUPER easy for all users (and thus a big boon for us developers) is to provide direct billing to the phone service for the app. As a developer, if it meant that users could simply buy apps without any checkout process, I'd be willing to give another 10% to google to have to pay the carrier to deal with that. I think we'd see FAR more sales than we do now. It makes sense to do that as well since android devices are already more complicated than iPhone.. so why not make the app buying process a bit easier for them!!
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Arron <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem I see is that, Google Checkout is horrible at generating > any types of reports to show the total earning. > > Are they really expecting us to take those generated excel > spreadsheets that don't even cover the full allotted time and then sum > them up ourselves in excel? > > I look at Google Checkout and I am unsure how anyone can sustain a > real business from it. If I am not forced to, I would never use > Google Checkout. > > On Jan 26, 3:46 pm, Kevin Duffey <[email protected]> wrote: > > So that begs the question... how will the IRS know? I don't want to sound > > like I am going to cheat the system and not pay taxes.. if I ever get > around > > to an app that makes money tho, is it any different than if I were making > > tips as a bartender? They are supposed to report it, although I do think > > that some stores report sales and from that a rough estimate of how much > > tips a person might make is reported. The point is, and I know this is at > > the discretion of each developer, but if I only make a few hundred bucks > > over the course of a year, it hardly seems like it's worth while for the > IRS > > to even follow up on.. but more so, if they don't know about it at all > and > > google/marke/paypal/whoever do not send any info at all, then well.. how > > many developers actually pay taxes on this money? > > > > I suppose if you made a big app that made $10K, 50K etc or more, it might > be > > more easily tracked. For example, you couldn't just get a google checkout > > check for $25K one month, put it in the bank and not raise suspicions I > am > > guessing. I don't know what the bank limit is before the bank/IRS start > > asking questions if you deposit it into a bank, but if it's a small some > of > > say a couple grand a month, well hell, I personally pay a crap load of > taxes > > on everything these days, I don't mind not telling the IRS I made a > little > > extra money to live on. Ideally I personally would set up a legit > business > > and do it right but that is just me. I am guessing especially the younger > > crowed who may not have kids, homes, etc to lose and making a little cash > on > > the side doing something fun might just ignore the tax thing altogether > if > > there is no way for them to be caught. > > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Streets Of Boston < > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > Thanks Mark. > > > > > >"no different than any other business income"< > > > true, but better be safe than sorry :-) > > > > > E.g. I sell my pictures on smugmug.com and they do send a 1099 and > > > report earnings to the IRS. When i wrote my question, I wondered > > > whether Google Checkout had a similar setup. > > > > > On Jan 25, 1:21 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Kevin Duffey wrote: > > > > > I asked that same thing a while ago in response to a different > post, I > > > > > don't recall getting a clear answer to this. I would think that > google > > > > > reports 1099 to IRS to keep track of all income you make... > otherwise > > > > > it's tax free which seems odd to me if you make a few grand. > > > > > > Payment processors, as a rule, do not have to file 1099's, AFAIK. I > > > > don't remember getting them from Amazon, PayPal, and Google Checkout > > > > last year. Your income comes from consumers, not Google. > > > > > > You simply have to report that income as part of your taxes, no > > > > different than any other business income. > > > > > > -- > > > > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com| > > >http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > > > > > Android Development Wiki:http://wiki.andmob.org > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]><android-developers%2Bunsubs > [email protected]> > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
