Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict
From: erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: Marketing Programs
Message-ID: <411@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 88 21:21:58 GMT
References: <1554@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> <1541@loral.UUCP>
Organization: flatline in Houston(Montrose, really), Tx.
Lines: 20
Keywords: Shareware
Summary: Did ya pay yer taxes?

In article <1541@loral.UUCP>, dml@loral.UUCP (Dave Lewis) writes:
> 
>   I've never bothered to total it all up, but I've gotten about $250 for
> some shareware. It hasn't brought me great fame and recognition, but I've


Um, did you pay income tax on that $250?  I've read a couple of articles
by programmers who got hit by IRS/state taxmen for non-payment of taxes.
Some states would probably consider you to be a business and ask to
see your state-tax liscense... You would only have to collect sales
tax on monies recieved from inside your state, however.
I would check it out, though.  One programmer I read  about pulled
in about $450, but had to pay about $500 in fines after he paid the taxes
on his $450.. Total left him somehwere near $250 *poorer* than when he
started.
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