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I don't get every problems people have with Fotolia, because it's been a while I closed my account there. But Fotolia is ahead of every agencies with their bad contributors relationship.

I hope every issues will be resolved, but they seem to not care about anything from what I have seen yet...

It's only on US sales. Only a fraction of my sales is taxed.

Same here, &*%$# Fotolia taxed ALL sales from january 1st till the date the received that stupid form. They suggested a refund but just received another message that they are not going to give back the money. I'm a non US resident so why should I pay tax and what is Fotolia doing with the money? I hope they invest it in their customer services and get some customer friendly training

 


It's a US law.  I understand it, I only think 30% is absurdly high for this reason (non-resident not benefitting from any US-government policy).
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It is absurd to subject non-US residents to a 30% tax rate especially as they are unable to claim it back or benefit from any US government policy regarding rebates/exemptions for eg low wage earners. Due to my low-income status, I don't actually pay anything on my FT income simply because the entirety of my income (incl. FT sales) after deduction of allowances places me in the 0% tax category.

But all tax authorities in the Western world are now looking for methods to boost their tax withholdings which are very significantly down in the past 2 years and I guess that this is a way to get more in.........No taxation without representation no longer applies, it would seem.