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None of Google's shared plans work cross-country - YouTube, Google Play, Stadia, Google One. All of them error, sometimes cryptically ( e.g. "Can't access payment methods"). It should be clearer what the issue is, with clear, concise error messages, but IMHO it's not a bug per se. Different country legislations, copyright, tax codes, prices, etc. etc. make that a complex matter and i see how they wouldn't want to deal with it.

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Sorry if that was not clear, my wife and I live on the same address in the same country. Her billing address is same as mine. I checked the net and Google product forums for possible solutions, checked the billing address, Play store settings, nothing helped.

Ah. In the Play store there's a main country which can be changed once a year[1], then there are payment methods ( you can't share Stadia, for instance, with anyone who has any payment method in a different country). The billing address changes nothing in this regard.

1 https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7431675?hl=en&c...

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No it doesn't, you'd still need to declare and pay local taxes, and abide by local legislations.

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