Why does this guy get a minus 1

Hes only asking a question?

Maybe someone doesn't like Zenfolio and giving a minus is a quicker way to express it I don't know.

Hi,

I haven't uploaded to Veer for about 2 years. Is it worth to upload again ? How are your sales there as compared to other agencies ?

Thanks!

Quote from: fotografer on March 18, 2015, 03:57

you have been accepted as a buyer.

LOL 

Yeah, congrats!

I am stuck on Sign and Submit tab. The field Submit W8BEN is inactive....

0.06 is below any standard. Does anyone happen to get those single sales (2-30 USD) ?

Thank you!

By the way, what size of the watermarked images do you upload to 500px ? I mean do you downsize them ? Eventually the full resolution is needed only for 500px Prime.

Cheers

Malta has a territorial based tax legislation and therefore makes lot of sense. You ONLY pay taxes on income generated or remitted to Malta. Luxembourg is not really a low tax jurisdiction. Only if you have the possibilities and the money to play some legal games with corporate entities.

Generally spoken, you have four different Tax paradigms in the world:

1. Citizenship based. You are a citizen of this country and must declare your taxes there, no matter where you live. This is pretty much only the US. If you are from there you are f**ked. Many US expats already got problems with banking e.g. it Switzerland or Latin america because of the strict legislation and some of them even chose to give up their passports.

2. Residency based. This is the common one. You are resident of a country and pay taxes there on your worldwide income. In some cases it could make sense to install a legal entity in another jurisdiction.

3. Territorial based. You are a resident in this country but ONLY pay taxes on income generated within this country and in some cases on income remitted on this country (Malta, Malaysia,...)

4. Income tax free countries.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation

But the issue is a bit more complex. Especially in many european countries the governments scam you with outrageous social security contributions which frequently are higher than the taxes itself - despite not being able to deliver reasonable pensions or health care. Sometimes just that can make a huge difference. Other countries have special rules for Royalties. E.g. the Netherlands had very low taxes on intellectual property income if I remember right - never actually lived there. There are many countries which offer lots of benefits in our cases.

I left my home country long time ago. Mostly because of the weather, but also taxes. Never looked back. I do not know about real life in Poland, but if you do not have strong family/friends/patriotic/language ties it does not make much sense to live in a cold, high taxed country IMHO. (Although up to 30% income taxes are not that much :-) ) But everyone has to look into his own options and possibilities.

In principle, I think there is nothing wrong with competition between the countries. It is healthy and reminds them that wealth comes from the ones who actually generate it, not from those who spend it.

I'm wondering if this is difficult to move the business to Malta or Romania or other country with low tax OR benefits for intellectual property sellers (microstockers etc). Moving to other country to live there is not an option for me.

Im in Czech Republic

I pay just 15 % from the net income after deductibles. Looks great, dosent it?

However, I also must pay $200/month for compulsory healthcare and social security (its called insurance but in fact its just tax) - these $200 must be paid even if I earn ZERO that month. If I go over $5000 net income per year, this insurance is raised to the 38 % of the income (but never gets bellow that $2400/year). And I pay 15 % income tax also from this insurance. So we are at 53 % of the income taxed directly!
Then add another taxes like road tax, house tax, recyclation taxes on every device you buy and many other hidden indirect taxes - these easily make few grands per year. And you pay 21 % VAT from every single thing/energy you buy from the remaining 47 % NET you get. So in total I pay something between 75-80 % of my income back to the state.

Since 1st January 2015 Im forced to pay VAT in every single country of EU where I sell any digital goods - including photos. This means at least $50-100/monthly just for paperwork + of course about 20 % VAT from every single sale and then we get to the beginning above. So I think 30 % income tax and no VAT is just paradise...

This looks like a tax nightmare!! 53% .... jeepers creepers...

I'm in Canada and we pay too much. On the other hand, we have great health care, highways, schools ....

numbers please

In Poland I pay 18-32% and I consider it quite a lot. Thinking about moving my business to Malta or Luxembourg

I am curious how it looks in other places.

Cheers!

I am considering giving a try to this analytics tool, but as always I am concerned about security. I know they don't require you to type your login and password but they do require to install a browser extension. Isn't it esentially the same ? They retrieve all the data from your account. I don't think it is difficult in this situation to get login and password. Am I wrong ? Can someone disabuse me out of mistake ?

Thanks!

Hi,

Is anybody on creativemarket.com ? How do photos sell ? Is it worth uploading ?

Thanks

I hope so as well! Even some paid options would be totally fine for me.

One more question - is there any documentation or symbiostock forum backup ?