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  • lakeview
    Confirmed User
    • Sep 2003
    • 247
    #1

    Euro webmasters: Whats it like doing adult sites from Europe?

    Does a lot of your money come in from euro surfers or do you have mostly American surfers? Do you have to pay a heavy tax?
    Do you have any strict regulations there? Do rules change from country to country?

    Are there connection issues or slowness from foreign traffic? Do you have any issues with your own connection speeds or is dsl/cable readily available?
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    • the real magoo
      So Fucking Banned
      • Sep 2001
      • 1637
      #2
      Mostly american surfers and 50% of what I make goes to taxes..rules are different in every country/state (...)

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        • Garou
          Confirmed User
          • Mar 2003
          • 850
          #3
          Rules vary a lot

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            • eiht_98
              Confirmed User
              • Jan 2001
              • 6103
              #4
              American surfers and I don't pay taxes. I get the check, go to the bank and cash it in.

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                • Video-Post
                  Selling short ICQ numbers
                  • Dec 2001
                  • 1118
                  #5
                  Really depends on the country.

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                    • frank7799
                      Confirmed User
                      • Jul 2003
                      • 1974
                      #6
                      Originally posted by lakeview
                      Does a lot of your money come in from euro surfers or do you have mostly American surfers? Do you have to pay a heavy tax?
                      Do you have any strict regulations there? Do rules change from country to country?

                      Are there connection issues or slowness from foreign traffic? Do you have any issues with your own connection speeds or is dsl/cable readily available?
                      Th rules vary from country to country, even in the european union they are not the same in each member state. The most restrictive rules are in Germany. German laws force the webmaster to proove the legal age of the surfer by a personal contact. The surfer has to sign up and then he is forced to verify his identity by mail. This means, he gets a mail which is delivered to him by personal contact and only if he signed personally he will get access to a site. Quite stupid and anyway typically german.

                      This law is up since April 1st. 2003 and not strictly practised yet. But the surfer has to signup with the digits of his identity card anyway.

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                        • Icy
                          Confirmed User
                          • Mar 2002
                          • 864
                          #7
                          I get 80% of my income from Spanish traffic as i own a Spanish dialer company. The laws are becoming more and more hard against dialers here so i'm going to put a good amount of money now on expanding my biz worldwide.

                          About taxes there are two ways of paying them:

                          Taxes to bussines companies: the max is around 35% of your profit after paying all the expenses reated to running your bussines, so the key here is to reinvest a lot on your bussines so you can avoid lots of taxes.

                          Taxes to individuals: You pay a max of 45% of your profit, this max is applied if you earn more than $150.000 per year. Else it ranges from 1% to that depending on your yearly profit.

                          Internet conections are slow, max is 2Mb ADSL.

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                            • lakeview
                              Confirmed User
                              • Sep 2003
                              • 247
                              #8
                              interesting, I didn't know the taxes are so heavy.
                              50% is a LOT

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                                • Eyes_Without_A_Face
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Oct 2003
                                  • 600
                                  #9
                                  In Portugal the tax situation is similar to the Spanish.

                                  All my sites are in English, except one (English, Portuguese, French and Spanish), so most of my income comes from the States.

                                  I only pay taxes from my day time job. Income from my adult sites goes straight to Switzerland
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                                    • Troels
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • May 2002
                                      • 1035
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by lakeview
                                      interesting, I didn't know the taxes are so heavy.
                                      50% is a LOT
                                      Company taxes are 30% and I think it's the plan to standardize that throughout EU (if they haven't already).
                                      Income taxes varies alot. Southern/Eastern Europe is lowest (but so are social services etc etc). Prepare to get skinned in Scandinavia. Approx 50-70%.
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                                        • Sosa
                                          In Tushy Land
                                          • Oct 2002
                                          • 40149
                                          #11
                                          [i]Income from my adult sites goes straight to Switzerland [/B]

                                          lol

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                                            • ukxtra
                                              Confirmed User
                                              • Jan 2003
                                              • 844
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by eiht_98
                                              American surfers and I don't pay taxes. I get the check, go to the bank and cash it in.
                                              Yeah, fuck the taxman.

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                                                • pradaboy
                                                  sell me your banners
                                                  • Dec 2003
                                                  • 12931
                                                  #13
                                                  mostly US surfers, max 52% tax here...
                                                  regulation is easier than US here I guess
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                                                    • Calvinguy
                                                      Confirmed User
                                                      • Oct 2002
                                                      • 1752
                                                      #14
                                                      Except for Germany there are not that many laws regarding adult, there are mostly greyzones.... and greyzones are much better than black and white.

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                                                        • Icy
                                                          Confirmed User
                                                          • Mar 2002
                                                          • 864
                                                          #15
                                                          Originally posted by lakeview
                                                          interesting, I didn't know the taxes are so heavy.
                                                          50% is a LOT
                                                          When you think on european taxes, be in mind that are not as expensive as they seem, as in Eurpeans countries you have tons of services paid by the goberments, like public schools, universities, free health care, hospitals, etc. In the states you could pay less but if you have a serious health problem you will need to sell all your bussines, home etc while all that is free in Europe. In mostly of europeans countries also you get a payment if you lose your work or after you retire at 65 years old. Also in the north European countries you have even more free services by the goberment so the taxes are near 70% there.
                                                          I'm not telling that this is a better system, as it also allow lots of lazy guys to live from the hard workers taxes, i'm just telling you why we have high taxes.
                                                          As Troels said, companies pay around 30%-35% and you can discount all expenses from operating your bussines so they key is to fund a company and reinvest a good amount of your earnings as i said before.
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                                                            • jft
                                                              Registered User
                                                              • Sep 2002
                                                              • 63
                                                              #16
                                                              we get pretty much all british traffic - but then our sites are all UK themed..

                                                              Could do with some more US traffic tho....

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