Hi, I'm no tax lawyer, but in the past years I've done contract jobs on rentacoder.com, they don't do any tax stuff either, but at the end of the year you get a 1099 form. I'm assuming Google may send us one of those. If not, you can report your income anyway in the U.S. on a Schedule C form. It's not really that hard. It's called self employment tax.
The big benefit is you can deduct anything that is a business related expense before applying the tax. Last year you could deduct up to about $5000 without having to itemize the deductions. Just check out the irs.gov website, it explains everything pretty well. -niko On Nov 10, 9:13 pm, Brian Conrad <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > athttp://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=.
