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RE: profit on line, taxes, internationally...how?
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al
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Mar 06, 2005 10:20 PST
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Thank you Jeffrey,
The problem is that I am having hard time to find specialists in this
topic here in my country, and in fact you guessed right, I am in Rome,
Italy.
| | Your business is subject to all local and national taxes in
the location where your business is established. The
location of the server hosting your e-commerce web site is
irrelevant.
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But I don't understand one thing: the website would be in English, it
would sell worldwide, basically there would be nothing to do with Italy
besides the fact that I am Italian.
| | I do not know where you are located, but let us say you
have a business registered in Rome but sell services
globally via a web sit hosted in London. Your business
would be subject tall Italian taxes as well as any property
or other taxes applicable to businesses in Rome.
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So, let's say that I am selling a membership to be part of my website,
and I ask 1$, how would I count the VAT and local taxes? What if I just
put the CCBill transaction on the site and I would just get the
transactions in my bank account?
Cause I saw many website and I have never noticed any VAT or taxes
| | However, your customers may be subject to tax for purchases
of your services. For example, if my company in Belgium
buys translation services from your company, my company
would have to pay VAT on the cost of the translations.
(but, since we are a company, we would calculate the VAT we
received from our customers, subtract the VAT paid and make
up - or receive the difference - from the government).
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But your company is actually selling goods, and I would sell a service,
something not phisical, and plus I would only relate to private
customers.
| | The best thing to do is discuss your situation with a good
accountant.
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It's not easy to find one here, believe me.
thank you
Alex
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