a:61:{s:15:"comment_post_ID";s:4:"7448";s:14:"comment_author";s:14:"Gerald Hornsby";s:20:"comment_author_email";s:24:"geraldswriting@gmail.com";s:18:"comment_author_url";s:36:"https://geraldhornsby.wordpress.com/";s:15:"comment_content";s:1713:"Ah! Yes, the great foreign tax 'issue'.

As a newbie ebook author, I followed the trail from Smashwords & Kindle, back and forth. And yes, the double taxation agreement seems simplicity in itself. Only, for those two ebook outlets, to stop them taking 30% without a by-or-leave, you need to get a form and an IRS number and send it off to the US Embassy, and ... and ...

On the HMRC site, there are fulsome documents hidden away, telling you that it's possible to reclaim tax paid on foreign earnings, blah blah. For more information ... contact one of these independent tax advisors. It seems that you've gone that one stage further, and you know what forms you need.

But - this is such a put-off for anyone new to writing and publishing. We have the opportunity to be earning many thousands of pounds in revenue (not me, obviously). But why should I work hard to sell my writing abroad when this situation is so difficult to resolve? And your post just fills me with horror - assuming I get to a similar stage to you, I have more delays and frustration to come.

Over the weekend, I shall be writing to our local MP. He was very good when we had a disagreement with our telephone / broadband supplier, and everything was sorted out double-quick. I think I have nothing to lose by asking him the question.

And don't get me started on the UK being 2nd class when it comes to indie publishing. Non-access to the US version of Amazon, features available to the US and not us, Barnes and Noble PubIt having a "State your country" option, and then saying "Nah, buddy, you can't join us here."

Thanks for posting this information, David. I don't feel so bad now if even you have frustrations like this.";s:12:"comment_type";s:0:"";s:14:"comment_parent";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ID";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ip";s:13:"92.24.234.150";s:10:"user_agent";s:127:"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.94 Safari/534.13";s:8:"referrer";s:161:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/the-great-foreign-tax-scandal/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+davidhewson%2FJwkh+%28davidhewson.com%29";s:4:"blog";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:9:"blog_lang";s:5:"en_US";s:12:"blog_charset";s:5:"UTF-8";s:9:"permalink";s:61:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/the-great-foreign-tax-scandal/";s:9:"user_role";s:0:"";s:21:"akismet_comment_nonce";s:6:"passed";s:11:"POST_author";s:14:"Gerald Hornsby";s:10:"POST_email";s:24:"geraldswriting@gmail.com";s:8:"POST_url";s:36:"https://geraldhornsby.wordpress.com/";s:12:"POST_comment";s:1713:"Ah! Yes, the great foreign tax 'issue'.

As a newbie ebook author, I followed the trail from Smashwords & Kindle, back and forth. And yes, the double taxation agreement seems simplicity in itself. Only, for those two ebook outlets, to stop them taking 30% without a by-or-leave, you need to get a form and an IRS number and send it off to the US Embassy, and ... and ...

On the HMRC site, there are fulsome documents hidden away, telling you that it's possible to reclaim tax paid on foreign earnings, blah blah. For more information ... contact one of these independent tax advisors. It seems that you've gone that one stage further, and you know what forms you need.

But - this is such a put-off for anyone new to writing and publishing. We have the opportunity to be earning many thousands of pounds in revenue (not me, obviously). But why should I work hard to sell my writing abroad when this situation is so difficult to resolve? And your post just fills me with horror - assuming I get to a similar stage to you, I have more delays and frustration to come.

Over the weekend, I shall be writing to our local MP. He was very good when we had a disagreement with our telephone / broadband supplier, and everything was sorted out double-quick. I think I have nothing to lose by asking him the question.

And don't get me started on the UK being 2nd class when it comes to indie publishing. Non-access to the US version of Amazon, features available to the US and not us, Barnes and Noble PubIt having a "State your country" option, and then saying "Nah, buddy, you can't join us here."

Thanks for posting this information, David. I don't feel so bad now if even you have frustrations like this.";s:11:"POST_submit";s:12:"Post Comment";s:20:"POST_comment_post_ID";s:4:"7448";s:19:"POST_comment_parent";s:1:"0";s:26:"POST_akismet_comment_nonce";s:10:"fe031fa813";s:15:"SERVER_SOFTWARE";s:79:"Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4";s:11:"REQUEST_URI";s:21:"/wp-comments-post.php";s:14:"CONTENT_LENGTH";s:4:"2044";s:12:"CONTENT_TYPE";s:33:"application/x-www-form-urlencoded";s:13:"DOCUMENT_ROOT";s:42:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com";s:17:"GATEWAY_INTERFACE";s:7:"CGI/1.1";s:11:"HTTP_ACCEPT";s:90:"application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5";s:19:"HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET";s:30:"ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING";s:17:"gzip,deflate,sdch";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE";s:14:"en-US,en;q=0.8";s:18:"HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL";s:9:"max-age=0";s:15:"HTTP_CONNECTION";s:10:"keep-alive";s:11:"HTTP_COOKIE";s:0:"";s:9:"HTTP_HOST";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:11:"HTTP_ORIGIN";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:12:"HTTP_REFERER";s:161:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/the-great-foreign-tax-scandal/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+davidhewson%2FJwkh+%28davidhewson.com%29";s:15:"HTTP_USER_AGENT";s:127:"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.94 Safari/534.13";s:4:"PATH";s:13:"/bin:/usr/bin";s:12:"QUERY_STRING";s:0:"";s:15:"REDIRECT_STATUS";s:3:"200";s:11:"REMOTE_ADDR";s:13:"92.24.234.150";s:11:"REMOTE_PORT";s:5:"55279";s:14:"REQUEST_METHOD";s:4:"POST";s:15:"SCRIPT_FILENAME";s:63:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com/wp-comments-post.php";s:11:"SCRIPT_NAME";s:21:"/wp-comments-post.php";s:11:"SERVER_ADDR";s:14:"67.225.237.100";s:12:"SERVER_ADMIN";s:37:"webmaster@davidhewson.davidhewson.net";s:11:"SERVER_NAME";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:11:"SERVER_PORT";s:2:"80";s:15:"SERVER_PROTOCOL";s:8:"HTTP/1.1";s:16:"SERVER_SIGNATURE";s:133:"<address>Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4 Server at davidhewson.com Port 80</address>
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