Clapcast 33: Daylight Microwave Savings (May 2020)

Hello hello hello and welcome to a brand new Clapcast! Please enjoy as we discuss microwaves, soundboards, time.is changes, and much much more! And big thank you to Keith J Carberry for handling the edit on this episode!! shout outs 2 Keith!!

While I have you all here, I want to speak on some changes coming to patreon!  Patreon will be required to start charging sales tax on some pledges starting July 1st.  

According to Patreon, less than half of all patrons will be charged sales tax, and for most, the  amount will be very small. For example, sales tax rates in the US range  from 4% to 11%, so on a $5 pledge, that would be between 20 cents and 55  cents. 

Whether or not you will be charged sales tax depends on your location, and what  is considered taxable there. Not every pledge is taxable, not all benefits are taxable in every location, and sometimes only a fraction of a pledge will be taxable. In our case, we've adjusted our tiers to divide out between "general support" and the different benefits to spread it out. For instance, someone who's paying $25 for the postcard tier won't be taxed on the full $25 for a physical item--because included in that price is the postcard and the benefits from all the tiers below. To be honest, it's all a little obtuse and it's frustrating not to know who will be charged what, but because there's such a big variance by location, there's only so much we can do. If it ends up we'll need to re-adjust some tiers going forward because of this, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it!

If you have questions, you should be able to find answers with patreon's FAQ here. If you still have questions, the best place to get an answer is from Patreon’s customer support team, here. If there's any other issues, DM us and we can try to work something out! We were surprised by this tax thing too, and can't really do anything about it, but will try to work with people when we can if this creates any issues!