Important Changes for Non-US Authors/Affiliates/Service Providers

Envato Announcements
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Now I understand why Envato switched to a model where the author sells the item directly to the buyer: the US tax is paid by the author, not Envato.

I just have no word for this, I’m disgusted.

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24

lol, so I create an item day and night for almost 2 months, and the money goes to tax. OMG.

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25

Envato you’re able to expand to America but NOT able to provide a tool for us to opt-out selling to US buyers, seriously? can I LOL now?

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27

As the seller, can’t we choose who to sell to?

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28

Choosing not to sell to US people will earn you even less money. Why? Probably 60-70% of your actual buyers are from US. It’s better to earn 3% of something than 100% of nothing.

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Its just like envato is telling us NO MORE PARTNERSHIPS. I bet here many authors(developers) have multiple partners who send multiple payment in a month. But as per new rule its not gonna work.

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31

I’m an individual, not a US person and have no Tax ID Number, what should I do?

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32

What will happen to the personal information I put in this form? Is this all sent to the US government?

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33

From positive point of view, if all this changes will bring us more US buyers (as it supposed to), potential growth of sales will overcome any current loss. So I hope Envato counted all pros and cons well.

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34

me too ! and i don’t know what id do now ?

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35

We are expected spilt partnership earnings. :smiley:
You did Single withdrawal for one author :frowning:

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where is the dislike button :smirk:

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37

lol well that was already hard, now , we 'll have another alternative , changing job , this is that simple, or maybe eat every other day …

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lol oh really ?! most of us have mainly purchases from the us , so basically in the first place , we will lose money in the first place in order to earn more lol , wow! that’s what i call speculating indeed …

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change job? maybe the alternative for the whole of us … after all that’s what this all system was preparing us to do … it will be just a bit sooner tan expected …

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in any case, u’ll lose money as most of buyers come from america anyway … one way or another u have no choice … u’ll struggle …

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I’m frm india (individual), not a US person and have no Tax ID Number, what should I do?

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i use to mention about it, we, authors, are the community and we make it happen, no one else … without us , it just would n’t exist at all …

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43

well basically if so that means that u’ll get 0 to 30 less when the fees here are already increasingly high … which means that the ones really working, authors, will get small crumbs of the cake … very fair indeed, a normal multinational environment in short …

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I guess a confusing problem here is many of us don’t understand how to interpret these IRS forms and rates pages. I certainly have no idea where to begin. Many authors are not making a large enough income on here to justify paying a tax agent to deal with what is being asked of us here.
With this in mind, I hope Envato will shortly set up some dedicated posts or walkthroughs to show us Non-US citizens how to fill them out, so that we can get on with making content again. Hopefully Envato being more attractive for US buyers will mean a rise in sales for everyone, but showing us how to get through this red tape quickly would go a long way in showing that they care about their Authors.

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