About Patreon new Tax (Coming July 1st) (Patreon)

Long post coming, sorry about that u.u 

A previously mentioned, starting July 1th , Patreon will start charging a new tax.
Now, I don’t think this is Patreon being greedy or something like that… I really think that this is just some countries getting in-pace with the times… and most likely more countries will be added to this list in the near future. 

source:
https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043054911-New-Sales-Tax-Requirements-effective-July-1st-2020#where

I have been making some research about it… and the main problem to give a proper explanation is the fact that it works different depending the country you are, and this value might change in time as well.

The thing is, in theory, this tax might not be applicable to the “whole amount” but just a percentage of it, depending the benefits you get and where you are from.

For example, Patreon states that the “general support” benefit  (which would mean that people is supporting my work mainly because they want to) is exempt from sales taxes in “the majority” of us states  while “digital goods”, like comics or PDF’s are taxable in all states which Patreon is collecting (They don’t mention other countries beside US about this subject). 

So, considering this, I could say that 50% of the amount goes to general support, while the other 50% goes to digital goods, in this case most places will tax just over %50 percent of the amount, while some states will tax over the whole amount. 

Anyway, is heavily implied by Patreon itself that creators should include “general support” in every tier, since it looks like that one isn’t taxed everywhere…  (They don’t outright say it and I think it might be for legal reasons, but I don’t know). Also, Patreon was from the start created more as a way to support artist than a place to get goods. 

Now, considering that most of the stuff I offer in return (benefit) anyway is some sort of digital content, exclusive or early access, most of my tiers will be affected in one way or another by this tax. But I also know that most of you are here because you just want to support my work, being Raan’s doll a good example, since I already mentioned that it won’t return until later this year and yet a lot of you who are here mainly for that comic, are still supporting my work here anyway.  (Since you enjoy the rest as well I hope c:)  

Needs to be mentioned that i could let Patreon do this automatically,  but by doing this manually, it will hopefully let you save a few cents. Specially in countries like Norway or Iceland (among others) that get a bigger tax rate, so if you are from there and you intend to keep your pledge for next month, please let me know how it goes since i don't really found any information about it :/

Beside this, no tier will change for now, as mentioned before, I offer some kind of digital content on each of them, and don't really offer any physical good. But I'll keep a close eye on how every tier is being affected by this during the next months. 

Anyway, this has been a long post already, I would appreciate if you share your thoughts in the comments below, or if you have any questions feel free to ask them.  

Best,
Kannel
 

PS:  Small comic update coming tomorrow,
      (correction: most likely on wednesday) :p
       Big comic update coming on Thursday! :3