Sales Tax News (Patreon)

Around June 1st, all patrons will be getting an email from Patreon regarding upcoming Sales Tax changes.  Basically, they are going to start charging sales tax on some pledges.  Whether or not it actually will affect you depends on what you're getting from your pledge in terms of pledge benefits and so forth.  As I understand it, some kinds of digital goods and services will be taxable, but it also varies by your country and location, so you may not be affected.

Since I do offer exclusive access to some downloads on my patron tiers, this may affect you.  However, I am going to be looking into ways to minimize the impact for as many of you as possible.  This may include making some projects that were previously only accessible through tiers available in my freebies folder.

At the end of the day, I do not use Patreon as a sales platform.  It is simply a way for you to support my work.  I have other storefronts that I use to sell digital goods.  So, I am not opposed to the idea of making previously patron-only downloads available for free if it saves you guys a bit of money in the long run.

So if you see some changes in the future, that's what's going on.  It may also be possible that nothing here is actually taxable, and so nothing will need to change.  We'll see.  Of course, if you have any comments or concerns about this change, feel free to post them and we can discuss them here.