Taxes on a Minecraft/FTB server?

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Dasco4

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English version (country where I live is Belgium):


I've got some questions about Taxes that I might need to pay.

1) After which amount of money are donations illegal (I get money as a donation to the server and give something like a rank for this to a player) or is this completely illegal what I'm doing?

2) If I need to pay taxes how do I do this? Where do I need to deposit the amount of money that I need to pay? And how can I find out about where to pay those Taxes?

3) If I don't tutch the money on my paypal account and if I will only use it to make my server better and to keep it online, will I then still need to pay any form of taxes. Or do I only need to pay taxes when those donations will become my real income like a job, like if I would move the money from my paypal to my real bank account?


Dutch version (Ik ben een Belg dus ik zou liefst info krijgen over de Belgische wetgeving hierover):

Ik ben zelf vrij recent een server begonnen en op dit moment heb ik al een redelijk bedrag aan donaties binnen. (donaties als in mensen betalen en krijgen ervoor iets in de plaats, dus geen echte donaties voor zover ik heb kunnen vinden op internet aangezien ik iets in de plaats geef)

De vraag waar ik op dit moment mee zit is, bij welk bedrag word dit illegaal of is het in het algemeen illegaal als je er geen belastingen op betaald?

Volgende vraag: als ik dus belastingen moet betalen hoe begin ik hier aan en op welke rekening stort ik het, hoe kan ik die rekening vinden?

Laatste vraag tot nu toe: als ik het geld op mijn Paypal laat staan en er niets mee doe buiten dingen voor de server, moet ik er dan alsnog belastingen op betalen of betaal je alleen belastingen als je het geld echt van je paypal rekening gaat afhalen en het overmaakt naar je officiële bank rekening?


Kind regards
Dasco
 
Well essentially when a person donates hey just give you money and the donor item or perk they get it just a bonus and not required. If you are using paypal the only fees you should have to pay would be for the money transfers which is usually like 1-3% of the transfer. See paypal for exact info.[DOUBLEPOST=1394831587][/DOUBLEPOST]Also the only other taxes would be the cost to transfer money to the host to pay for the server, which is a service.
 
I decided a while ago to contact the inland revenue (UK) to see if the income received was legitimate or not. What they told me was actually rather interesting. Due to it being called 'donating' and the server not being a declared business in itself. The money received from the server is considered to be the equivalent of a gift. Any person in the UK can give up to £500 to anyone else in the UK as a gift before it becomes taxable, this figure rises if you are related, and parents can give unlimited amounts to children under the age of 18. So provided one person doesn't give me more than £500 over the course of a tax year then I don't have to declare it as an income.

Now, if you're using pay pal to receive your money and you're worried the above may not be the same in your country. Then consider this, just leave the money in your pay pal account, a lot of places accept pay pal anyway and you could use one of their new mastercards for other places. If your intention is to never spend any of the money on anything except the server then just leave any earnings in the pay pal account. Worst case scenario would be the tax man asks why you've got all this money, and you can turn round and just say its not my money, its the servers money which is a non-profit, explain the situation and they will back off.

Hope the above helped :)