This whole area of taxes for online purchases is rather gray. I also sell products using Digital River with their SWReg service. They take care of all tax issues and have the software in place for it. With Digital River taxes are only charged in states where they have offices or states that have passed tax laws for online purchases. They may also charge VAT taxes for countries that are applicable. The developer doesn't have to worry about it.
Google not being as mature a company as Digital River must not be up to building such an infrastructure. Either that or a lazy legal counsel who thinks they should just dump the issue on developers. Brian Conrad JyotishTools.com Arron wrote: > WOW the more I read, I am getting disheartened by Google's approach. > Apparently developers have to handle ALL SALES tax on their own. > Seriously can they make a life of a developer harder? Apple's > AppStore handles all taxes for you and Google Android Market does > not? Are you serious? A small developer like me can really figure out > what to do with sales taxes for US and other countries in the world? > > Sometimes Google's approaches make them seem so immature compared to > other companies. Do they even know what they are doing? > > At this point, I am unsure what to do at all. I have tons of sales > sold without any taxes imposed onto the buyer. How do I report this > back to the tax agencies? I might have to go to the route of hiring a > tax consultant just to deal with this and Google thinks developers > will flock to Google to do this type of BS? > > What is Google thinking?! Please tell me I am totally wrong on this. > > On Nov 10, 5:19 pm, Arron <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have been selling my application on the Android Market for over a >> period of 6 months. I wasn't aware of all the tax issues that I have >> recently been reading about. >> I have read various threads about seller taxes and now I am deeply >> confused on what to do. >> >> 1) I do not see any developers charging sales tax at all for their >> applications >> 2) Do I need to charge sales tax? >> 3) Is there a chart anywhere to tell me what sales tax I should input? >> 4) Once I input the sales tax and the buyer gets charged, does it >> automatically go to the US government? >> >> Sorry I am a complete noob on this and Google is definitely making it >> difficult to understand. I do not want to get into any issues with >> taxes. Any tax genius out there that has any ideas on what to do? >> > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=. > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=.
