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UltraGiGaGigantic, do games w EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes?
@UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml avatar
yetAnotherUser,

Earning 400,000€ in two years makes you part of the 1% though?? Where else would this guy be? Upper middle class?

Dasus, (edited )
@Dasus@lemmy.world avatar

Okay that’s not nothing but 200 000€ / year is hardly top 1% in EU, I think.

This is what slop gave me:

Based on available data on income distribution in Europe, a rough estimate for a gross annual individual salary to be in the top 1% across the EU would likely fall above €200,000.

When I asked how much you’d need to make in a year to be in EU top 1%. Didn’t even mention 200 000.

So yeah upper class but not necessarily top 1%. In Lithuania they’re probably top1% but not on the EU level.

Sorry for being pedantic, you were close enough tho

yetAnotherUser,

According to the German (I have not found an EU equivalent) office for statistics, you are part of the top 1% of full-time workers if you earn >213,286€ per year:

www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/…/PD25_134_621.html

Sure, this doesn’t include billionaires who don’t work but there just aren’t enough of them to matter. It’s not like there are hundreds of thousands billionaires in Germany.

Someplaceunknown, do games w EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes?
@Someplaceunknown@leminal.space avatar

RuneScape still exists?

crumbguzzler5000,

Yer god damn right it does! Nostalgia is a helluva drug.

commiunism,

OSRS is legit on its way to become bigger than it was in 2007 on miniclip days, it broke 250k players recently I believe, there’s also been a WoW streamer exodus towards OSRS too

So yes

truthfultemporarily, do games w EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes?

This is actually really interesting!

This taxable individual, Kokott explains, was found to have bought and resold through “various forums, groups, and platforms such as Facebook, Discord, and Skype” enough RuneScape gold to earn €415,484—approximately $488,000 USD—between 2021 and 2023.

They then were ordered to backpay VAT because they made above 45k. Defendant says trading virtual currencies is like trading crypto, and VAT exempt. Government says its like selling a voucher instead.

Its corner cases like this one that make taxes complicated for regular people.

I also find it hilarious that tax lawyers and accountants will have to read that court decision.

ICastFist,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Shit, sounds like I should set up some runescape bots to sell gold, even if I only get like 10k USD a year, that’s doubling my income

ordnance_qf_17_pounder, do games w EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes?

Can I get taxed if I buy a gf for 25k?

SkunkWorkz, (edited )

Yeah you pay VAT because you are buying a service. But your “gf” has to collect it and pay it to the tax agency.

meldrik,

You don’t pay VAT on a personal transaction though. But the girlfriend would probably have to pay income tax.

daniskarma,

We should know if the gf is selling herself as a second hand sale or if it’s a recurring economic activity. If so, she should register in VAT and collect it.

(Legality of that economic activity may differ by country)

ViatorOmnium,

Depending on the country, and depending on the gift, yes. Though it’s mostly not enforced.

SalamenceFury, do games w Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit
@SalamenceFury@lemmy.world avatar

Counter-Strike being the most popular PC game in the planet must be a figment of my own imagination, then.

psx_crab,

Can’t believe Valve didn’t make real game. CS, TF2, DOTA2, all fake.

answersplease77, do games w Ubisoft's Saudi-funded Assassin's Creed DLC provokes staff unrest, but the publisher insists partnering with the controversial regime is A-OK

It’s fucking important for any gamer with a shred of concious humanity to boycott this game and make it fail.

The money this game was funded by comes directly and only from blooded oppression of a dictatorship. From forced unpresented taxes and bloody oil money of terrorisim. They beheaded and killed all their human-right activist citizens and protestors who tried to ask for their share that went to this game.

cheesorist,

mmm some mighty fine propaganda and racims you have there

answersplease77,

racism?!? what are you talking about ?? are you replying to my comment?!?

mlg, do games w Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit
@mlg@lemmy.world avatar

Team Fortress was a quake mod

Half Life used a modded version of the quake engine

Counter Strike was a Half Life mod

L4D was a Counter Strike mod

Gary’s Mod is literally just a game revolving around you modding the Source Game Engine

Seems legit Nintendo.

dual_sport_dork, (edited )
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

Here’s one that’ll hit them closer to home: The original Donkey Kong is literally a mod for the earlier Radar Scope cabinets. Nintendo had better hope they don’t wind up with any video game nerds in any juries or they’re going to open a can of worms on themselves that they really don’t want to have wriggling all over their lap.

Dyskolos, do games w Ubisoft's Saudi-funded Assassin's Creed DLC provokes staff unrest, but the publisher insists partnering with the controversial regime is A-OK

Ugh. Cram your propaganda where the sun won’t shine. So glad to have not bought mirage yet. And now I surely won’t. Despite me liking the ubi games. Yeah I said it, now downvote me like hell for it 😁

TallonMetroid,
@TallonMetroid@lemmy.world avatar

If you’d like to don your eyepatch and tricorn, a dev build (ie Denuvo-less) of v1.0.6 got leaked last November.

wondrous_strange, do games w Ubisoft's Saudi-funded Assassin's Creed DLC provokes staff unrest, but the publisher insists partnering with the controversial regime is A-OK

Yummm tatses like hasbara propaganda

pulsewidth,

Is everything critical of Saudi Arabia Hasbara propaganda?

I hate Saudi Arabia’s leadership and brutal oppression of their people. Obviously, Kashoggi. Obviously, funding terrorism worldwide. Personally, a friend of mine witnessed a state beheading simply by being in the wrong place at the wrong time while he was working in SA (he was an Indian immigrant worker) - scarred him for life.

Hasbara are in the walls so I presume they saw me type that out and I’ll just patiently await my cheque.

bestboyfriendintheworld,

Why? Israel and Saudi Arabia get along pretty well. They are natural allies against Iran. The current war in Gaza is all that stands between Saudi Arabia entering the Abraham accords.

wondrous_strange,

Yeah you’re probably right and I’m wrong, my hate of israel got the better of me

FinishingDutch, do games w Would-be City of Heroes successor, Ship of Heroes, decides to launch the MMO with a $45 price tag and a $15 monthly subscription and it's, er, going about as well as you'd expect
@FinishingDutch@lemmy.world avatar

Did their parents drop them on their heads as kids? Because there has to be something seriously wrong with them if they think that’s the way to go.

A 60 dollar buy is a VERY hard sell. And a 15 dollar subscription is a completely no-go. Or rather, ANY subscription.

Whoever came up with that is seriously detached from any form of reality.

CaptainBlinky, do games w Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics'

That’s really a shame. Deus Ex deserves a full ground up remake.

FenrirIII, do games w Would-be City of Heroes successor, Ship of Heroes, decides to launch the MMO with a $45 price tag and a $15 monthly subscription and it's, er, going about as well as you'd expect
@FenrirIII@lemmy.world avatar

I wish the Marvel MMO was available on private servers. Played that shit for thousands of hours before it just disappeared

dil, do games w Would-be City of Heroes successor, Ship of Heroes, decides to launch the MMO with a $45 price tag and a $15 monthly subscription and it's, er, going about as well as you'd expect

I wihshlisted assuming itd be free or cheap, looks bad lol, they prob saw the high amount of wishlists and hot greedy not realizing most ppl thought it was some low effort cheap game

Kolanaki, do games w Would-be City of Heroes successor, Ship of Heroes, decides to launch the MMO with a $45 price tag and a $15 monthly subscription and it's, er, going about as well as you'd expect
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

MMO with a subscription?

Bitch, you ain’t WoW. And I won’t even pay a subscription for WoW.

glitchdx, do games w Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics'

holy shit that looks bad.

If you have deus ex through steam, you can also get revision through steam and revision looks pretty good in my opinion.

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