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Clapcast 33: Daylight Microwave Savings (May 2020)
🕑 Added 2020-06-22 16:46:52 +0000 UTCHello 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 Patreonβs 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!
Comments
A.E. Ross
absolutely tremendous soundboard bit. 10/10
Mal Peters
Just coming back to listen to this again after Quibi collapsed
Paige Turner
favorite part of this was the split second where I thought that Ali could easily decide which version of the batman villain, The Joker, was good or bad
Maiken Reinfjell
Yup, I laughed out loud at that comment π (I live in middle Norway)
Finn Edwardson
"imagine getting out of school at 3.30 and it's dark out" Austin welcome to the life of everyone in the UK and anywhere further north in the winter π¬ even with daylight savings it's pitch black out by 4pm in December/January. Ya go to work in the dark and you come home in the dark and you spend all day looking listlessly out of the window at miserable grey half-light π¬
paranewandrew
I also thought Janine was saying that people use microwaves more in winter.
Friends at the Table
A VAT has been charged for EU supporters on patreon since before we made our account. The explanation here is in regards to an upcoming change that's coming to the US and a handful of other countries. I'm sorry that it was vague or that you felt left out by it but we need to write it so that the majority of our supporters will be aware that their charge this month will be increased.
