New to adsense, need help !!urgent

vanallenbs · #1 (**permalink**) 04-04-2008, 04:49 PM

hey there. i am from canada ,i got accepted after sign up. about tax information session, i got this message which i don't know how to solve. here goes:

Certification of No U.S. Activities
Please sign and testify to the following information. By clicking Submit you agree that:

Publisher represents and warrants that it does not have any employees or equipment located in the United States ("U.S. Activities") that are involved in any way with the revenue that has been or will be earned by Publisher pursuant to the eBay Partner Network program. U.S. Activities include, but are not limited to, owning a Web server or owning a hosting service in the U.S., or having employees in the U.S. who are involved in either:

* setting up Publisher's Web server, hosting service, or Web site
* developing content for Publisher's Web site
* marketing to create a user base for Publisher's site
* telephone support for Publisher's site
* buying products for Publisher's site
* maintaining Publisher's site

i don't know what should i do which this infor. i do have my sites and hosting in US, cause i am using bluehost. in this case,i am allowed to do business with google. if not, what should i do ?

please give me some advice. really appriciate. thanks!

eww-wats-dat · #2 (**permalink**) 04-19-2008, 02:09 PM

"Owning a hosting service" Does that mean you have to OWN Bluehost to pay taxes for that? I myself use bluehost aswell I have searched google and some say you have to pay taxes and some say you are just buying the service from Bluehost.

From Adsense:

Quote:

Generally, utilizing an unrelated third-party U.S. web hosting service to host your web pages, renting web servers that are located in the U.S. from an unrelated third party, or having your payment sent to a U.S. Post Office Box or mail forwarding address, do not of themselves constitute U.S. Activities.

So it looks like you dont have any US activities there. Its all good

https://www.google.com/adsense/stati...S/TaxInfo.html

voxclan · #3 (**permalink**) 04-19-2008, 07:35 PM

You decided obviously what you want to do but be sure that if at some point Rev Can or your provincial gov ask Google in Canada to provide them with a list of revenues of Canadians, they will. They are a public company and will obey.

Where your sites are hosted has nothing to do with this. It's where you live and where Google is sending payments.

blackhatrebel · #4 (**permalink**) 05-15-2008, 05:37 PM

The paper work you quoted above is simply to state that you are a non-us resident and therefore do not pay taxes on the money you receive to the US gov.