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Title: Fotolia and tax forms - how to
Post by: PETED7000 on January 26, 2011, 07:33

Hi all,I have recently sold 3 photos via Fotolia,but having trouble understanding of how to get payment as its being withheld and i get e:mails saying i need to the Tax centre page and complete things.WELL what a mind boggling array of forms  ???
Any help please.
Pete

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Title: Re: Fotolia
Post by: Artemis on January 26, 2011, 07:44

Do you submit to Fotolia only? Many other sites require you to fill in taxforms as well (SS, DT, Veer, BigStock,...).
How to fill it in depends a bit on where you live and whether you operate as individual or company. The Shutterstock forums has a tax-section in which it gets described clearly how to fill in the forms (per country). Maybe you can take a look there:
http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=18 (http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=18)

Title: Re: Fotolia and tax forms - how to
Post by: PETED7000 on January 26, 2011, 08:02

Hi Artemis
I live in Ipswich,so thats uk and joined as an indivdual. I submit to mediastock.co.uk and they have NO tax forms.
Thanks for your help tho.

Title: Re: Fotolia and tax forms - how to
Post by: Artemis on January 26, 2011, 08:14

 I believe the UK has a tax treaty with the US so if you fill in the W-8 form no taxes should be witheld from your sales. This link probably is handier than digging through the taxforum on SS:
http://submit.shutterstock.com/tax_center.mhtml (http://submit.shutterstock.com/tax_center.mhtml)
Its from Shutterstock, but taxforms are the same for all agencies and you can find detailed info here on how to fill it in correctly.