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YouTube Creators Outside U.S. Are Likely To Get Fewer Payments As Google To Begin Deducting U.S Taxes

Now, creators from outside YouTube will have to pay U.S tax, stated through a recent YouTube Community post.

Recently, YouTube updated their YouTube community section that YouTube creators who do not live in the U.S need to submit relevant tax info so that Google can deduct the correct tax amount.

Many YouTube creators whose channels are monetized have also received an email from YouTube stating the same. This new tax rule will impact the YouTube creators outside the U.S. and receive fewer payments from June 2021.

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According to the post, Google has the responsibility under chapter 3 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code to collect the tax from all monetized YouTube channels outside the U.S. The new tax deduction rule is no by means of deducting tax from all your earnings.

As YouTube is a worldwide product, many YouTube channels have a viewer base in the U.S. With that latest update, and Google will only deduct the tax amount when it is generated from the U.S viewers.

The tax deduction will not only impose on the ad views earning but also on the YouTube Premium, Super Chat, Super Stickers, and Channel Memberships.

Regarding this tax implementation, there are specific tax slabs to the YouTube Creator’s action and the country from which they are belonging.

If a creator does not submit tax information in the given time, they will see a total 24% of tax deduction, whether they have earned from U.S viewers on their channel or not.

Countries that have a tax treaty with the U.S likely to see some tax relaxations. Creators who would submit their proper tax document, and live in a country having a tax treaty with the U.S, will have to pay 15% of the earning from the U.S viewers. The earnings from their own country and other countries will stay untouched.

Creators belonging from a country that does not have a tax treaty with the U.S will be deducted 30 percent of the total U.S viewer earnings.

However, the earning from their own or other countries except the U.S does not come under this new tax rule.

The Creators are asked to submit their valid tax documents by May 31, 2021.

Currently, YouTube is the biggest video sharing platform, where every minute, tons of video content are being uploaded by the YouTube creators. After this new tax rule, creators are instinctively going to be unhappy.

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