So i just now started getting taxed on IN-game purchases

[Mako]

Yesterday, couldnt buy ingame store items, such as skins from Rust. Today, i tried again and before checking out, i was asked to update my billing info and now i am charge 10% tax on in-game store skin purchase.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Mako:

So i just now started getting taxed on IN-game purchases

Yesterday, couldnt buy ingame store items, such as skins from Rust. Today, i tried again and before checking out, i was asked to update my billing info and now i am charge 10% tax on in-game store skin purchase.

If your state, province or country require taxes on all digital goods, yes.

Originally posted by Lee:

Ok, what does this have to do with Steam? You need to ask in the game hub for Rust.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/252490/discussions/

This has nothing to do with the game developer.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Mako:

Yesterday, couldnt buy ingame store items, such as skins from Rust. Today, i tried again and before checking out, i was asked to update my billing info and now i am charge 10% tax on in-game store skin purchase.

Vote with your wallet on your ballot. Your state politicians decide on taxes for online goods, you're in power to vote for those against taxes on digital goods.

[MrSteel300]

Originally posted by Lee:

Ok, what does this have to do with Steam? You need to ask in the game hub for Rust.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/252490/discussions/

the hell, what is publisher gonna do, valve's the distributer

[Vodka]

Originally posted by Lee:

Ok, what does this have to do with Steam? You need to ask in the game hub for Rust.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/252490/discussions/

Maybe cuz steam is the one taxing the in game purchase?

[Wolfpig]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by Mako:

Yesterday, couldnt buy ingame store items, such as skins from Rust. Today, i tried again and before checking out, i was asked to update my billing info and now i am charge 10% tax on in-game store skin purchase.

Vote with your wallet on your ballot. Your state politicians decide on taxes for online goods, you're in power to vote for those against taxes on digital goods.

If you vote against taxes on online goods, then you would need to vote against taxes at all.
Should not make a difference where/what you buy to pay taxes on it.

Easier solution would be to move to a place which has taxes already included in the shown price.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by Tupac:

Originally posted by Lee:

Ok, what does this have to do with Steam? You need to ask in the game hub for Rust.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/252490/discussions/

Maybe cuz steam is the one taxing the in game purchase?

Except what you're talking about isn't STeam's charges which are paid by the game developer.
What you're seeing seems to be some new tax imposed by your country/state.

[Mako]

Originally posted by Lee:

Ok, what does this have to do with Steam? You need to ask in the game hub for Rust.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/252490/discussions/

cuz this is a tax coming from Steam directly based on my billing address.

and my friend who uses a random address isn't getting taxed.

[Mako]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by Mako:

So i just now started getting taxed on IN-game purchases

Yesterday, couldnt buy ingame store items, such as skins from Rust. Today, i tried again and before checking out, i was asked to update my billing info and now i am charge 10% tax on in-game store skin purchase.

If your state, province or country require taxes on all digital goods, yes.

Originally posted by Lee:

Ok, what does this have to do with Steam? You need to ask in the game hub for Rust.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/252490/discussions/

This has nothing to do with the game developer.

:winterbunny2023:

Why all of a sudden it happened now when i havned change my billing info in years until i was forced 2 days ago.

and i know people whose accounts dont get taxed.

[fluxtorrent]

Originally posted by Mako:

Originally posted by Lee:

Ok, what does this have to do with Steam? You need to ask in the game hub for Rust.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/252490/discussions/

cuz this is a tax coming from Steam directly based on my billing address.

and my friend who uses a random address isn't getting taxed.

And? Steam only applies tax because your government requires them to. If your friend is evading taxes thats their problem. Welcome to the reality that governments change tax laws.

[Mako]

Originally posted by fluxtorrent:

Originally posted by Mako:

cuz this is a tax coming from Steam directly based on my billing address.

and my friend who uses a random address isn't getting taxed.

And? Steam only applies tax because your government requires them to. If your friend is evading taxes thats their problem. Welcome to the reality that governments change tax laws.

so you have no idea what youre talking about? how are they evading taxes?

[fluxtorrent]

Originally posted by Mako:

Originally posted by fluxtorrent:

And? Steam only applies tax because your government requires them to. If your friend is evading taxes thats their problem. Welcome to the reality that governments change tax laws.

so you have no idea what youre talking about? how are they evading taxes?

If their actual address should be getting taxed, and they are using a "random" one to avoid that, it is tax evasion. And I said "if" so might want to move out of that glass house about "knowing what you are talking about".

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Mako:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

If your state, province or country require taxes on all digital goods, yes.



This has nothing to do with the game developer.

Why all of a sudden it happened now when i havned change my billing info in years until i was forced 2 days ago.

and i know people whose accounts dont get taxed.

It depends on when your local laws went into effect.

[Mako]

Originally posted by fluxtorrent:

Originally posted by Mako:

so you have no idea what youre talking about? how are they evading taxes?

If their actual address should be getting taxed, and they are using a "random" one to avoid that, it is tax evasion. And I said "if" so might want to move out of that glass house about "knowing what you are talking about".

the address requires a state, you get taxed according to the state, the state is listed on their billing info. you should move on cuz you have no idea

[Free* Jewish Magic]

Gotta fund more pointless wars/infinity immigration/other dumb projects, i guess.

[Dura_Ace]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by Mako:

Yesterday, couldnt buy ingame store items, such as skins from Rust. Today, i tried again and before checking out, i was asked to update my billing info and now i am charge 10% tax on in-game store skin purchase.

Vote with your wallet on your ballot. Your state politicians decide on taxes for online goods, you're in power to vote for those against taxes on digital goods.

Which will never happen. Paid for career politicians will never repeal that. That source of tax revenue is already spent for the next 20 years, It is gone already