New tax-evasion Patreon tier: Ghost Cat! (Patreon)

You should have gotten an e-mail from Patreon about this back in June, but in case you didn't: Patreon is going to start adding sales tax onto a number of services provided by creators. Sucks, I know. Wish I got a say in it, but I do not. :[

In certain US states, as well as some countries, sales tax will be applied to tiers with streaming or other exclusive content. Unfortunately, this applies to most of my tiers to some extent. However, percentage values can be assigned to tier rewards so that only the percentage of pledged money that is going toward "taxable" services will be taxed.

I'd prefer to save you folks money where I can, so I tried to balance values between general support (which is nontaxable) and digital rewards accordingly. However, I'm not exactly sure how much charges will change in July. Chances are the change will be minimal (or even zero), but it may be a bigger deal for some people.

In the meantime, I've added a new tier: Ghost Cat! This is for people who want to support me without paying tax, but don't want to choose "no reward" and lose out on discord access (which is one of the better rewards, and apparently tax exempt in the majority of US states!)  

You can choose this tier no matter what amount you pledge. So if you truly don't care about any of the extra rewards (such as stream recordings, which I doubt many of you care much about) and just want to contribute to my cause without forking any extra money over to the govvermint, this is the tier for you!

The new taxes will be implemented June 1st, so we'll see how that goes when it happens. Hopefully it won't end up being a big deal. But if anyone has any issues or suggestions for tier tweaks, please let me know! I'll see what I can do to make tiers as taxpayer-friendly as possible.