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‘Huge middle finger’: YouTube tells foreign creators they will soon be charged AMERICAN tax

Source: RT
March 10, 2021 at 11:15
File photo ©  REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
File photo © REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

While some of the commenters on Twitter suggested checking which countries have a tax treaty with the US to prevent dual taxation, there were a few who reasoned that the world needs “a non-american website to do the same thing youtube does.”

The video platform, owned by Google, actually updated its terms of service to tax US creators shortly after the 2020 election, but the change went largely unnoticed in the uproar about censorship. On Tuesday, however, YouTube announced that the taxes will soon be taken out of earnings by creators outside the US.

Taxes will be deducted from earnings derived from US viewers through “ad views, YouTube Premium, Super Chat, Super Stickers, and Channel Memberships,” the platform said.
 

 

Google’s support page explains that it will regard the revenue from YouTube Partner Program (YPP) monetization settings as royalties under the US tax code, just as it has been doing to US-based creators since November. Reactions to the announcement have been overwhelmingly negative. 

“Whaaat!? I'm Canadian... Working in Canada.. Already have to pay Canadian taxes on every single dollar I make from YouTube.. Why?” asked Jordan J Sparks, better known as Dance Coach Reacts.



“Imagine making me pay for drone strikes when I'm not even a US citizen,” is how Scottish comedian Mark ‘Count Dankula’ Meechan framed his criticism.

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