YouTube tells foreign creators they will soon be charged American tax

Re:YouTube tells foreign creators they will soon be charged ... by D13Fd on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @11:12AM (#26412745)

I have zero love for YouTube or Google, but any ire here should be directed at U.S. law, not at them. They have no option but to comply with the law -- whether that means applying taxes to revenue from U.S. sources, or cutting off non-U.S. creators from revenue or views from U.S. sources.

I don't think YouTube or Google is collecting tax just for fun or to punish their content creators.

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Re:YouTube tells foreign creators they will soon be charged ... by sudosysgen on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @11:24AM (#26412889)

I agree, this is mostly an issue from the US Government.

That being said, Google has subsidiaries that cover every region of the world, if they wanted to do so they could put creator services under the dominion of those regional subsidiaries, then structuring the transfer payements to equalize the inflow/outflow as IP payments, as they do already for other services.

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