Join us Thursday, March 13, 5-6 p.m. EST, for the TAA webinar, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Publishing Your Academic…
Textbook proposal tips: Read publishers’ author guidelines
Most textbook publishers provide instruction on their website in the form of author guidelines for developing a book proposal that…
Bob Mankoff to keynote 2014 TAA Conference
Robert Mankoff, nationally renowned cartoon editor for The New Yorker, will be the keynote speaker at TAA’s 2014 Conference with…
Tax tips for authors: 3 Simple steps to organizing your business expenses
While it is understandable that most writers would prefer to concentrate their time on their writing, writing is a business…
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Tax tips for authors: Understand foreign taxes, tax credit and tax certification
If you have sold your textbooks in foreign markets, foreign publishers may withhold foreign taxes at the source before the money is paid to your agent and before it is paid to you. If they are doing that, and you earned, for example, $10,000 in a foreign country, 10 percent, or $1,000, will have been withheld from your payment. Your agent would have received $9,000, and withheld his 15 percent commission on the $10,000 you actually earned. So you would end up getting about $7,500.