In his recent TAA webinar, “Taxes and Authors: What You Should Know”, Robert Pesce, a partner at Marcum LLP, shared some important information about the new tax law. He also offered advice on two key questions for tax-conscious authors: 1) What type of entity should you be? and 2) Are you keeping good records on your business deductions? [Read more…]
Tax tips for authors: Understand foreign taxes, tax credit and tax certification
February 18, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Robert Pesce
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. [Read more…]
