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This is insanity. It's not just the money taken in taxes, it's the fact that you additionally have to deal with the additional administrative overhead of filling out US tax paperwork, praying you don't get it wrong or paying a US-focused advisor to do it for you.

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I am not sure, at least it is the same on Amazon KDP. There are three situations as summarized in the above link:

* Creator doesn’t submit tax info.

* Creator submits tax info and claims a treaty benefit.

* Creator submits tax info, but is not eligible for a tax treaty.

You have to pay your taxes somewhere, if you don't tell Google that you pay them in your country, then Google is in charge to collect the taxes at least for the part concerning US users.

As an individual yes but i’m not aware of companies having this problem. Does Google treats all its creators as people (i.e income tax) only or does it have the ability to recognise companies?

I guess i can close this with the disbelief that content creators setup companies and then use Youtube as themselves. What kind of accounting shenanigans would be required to be a company and content creator on youtube? I am genuinely interested.

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