[sentimentscan]

At EU there is a tax issue so you pay money + 23% VAT.

It isn't consider a gift as you a gaining something (access to page) so you need to pay tax on that.

This is one thing that bothers me with patronite and other platforms. I wish I could simply send a gift (without acces to anything) and not to pay another tax on already taxed money.

[robinsonb5]

The flipside of that is that Patreon handles the ugly details of making sure the right amount of VAT / sales tax is paid on transactions - and from a creator's point of view this is a big part of their value proposition.

If creators had to administer that stuff on an individual basis they'd have no time left for creating.

[xxs]

VAT rate is EU state based (varies 16-25%), the VAT has to applied to the one's 'donating' the money state of residence, as long as there is more than 10k euro/year revenue.

Many EU states tax tips as well (all the way -> VAT/corporate/income/social tax)