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Paypal and furries
6 years ago
The footer is the truth.
So several furs have started posting journals about the shiney system being bad and I was about to respond to one with the stuff below the dashes, but figured I should just do one journal as a response to all. (I have modified this after I learnt some more accurate information)
EDIT:
It actually seems that it may be true that digital porn is forbidden through paypal.
https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp.....ervices-FAQ569
Basically, what this says is that they won't allow you to buy artwork or video. Its because they don't want you using paypal to do sex shows and whatnot, it wasn't designed with furries in mind, so you can stop bitching about paypal hating furries. Any digital porn of any kind, is what is forbidden. Videos of yourself jacking off, pictures of your boobs/dick, drawn artwork, animated horse cock videos, etc. Its all "digital goods" and "porn". Nothing to do with furries specifically.
You can still buy adult things with paypal, such as dildos, for example. So paypal isn't shy of adult content, its just they don't want kids posting porn of themselves to get some money. I know a portion of you furries here masturbate on skype and demand paypal donations in exchange. :P But thats not what paypal is there for, its for business, not prostitution.
Now, the other reason that I saw people getting punished for and they never told anyone the truth about because its easier to say "paypal hates furries", is listed below the dashes.
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1) Requested payments in the form of donations, this is a tax evading method. Not to mention Paypal tracks the amount of donations received for the purposes of detecting such illegal activity.
2) Artists don't report their income to their government, this is a job, and it is self employment. If you make over a certain amount within a year, you can not claim to be unemployed. Some artists try to illegally abuse the system to get unemployment benefits and such while getting paid shit tons for drawing dicks all day.
EDIT:
It actually seems that it may be true that digital porn is forbidden through paypal.
https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp.....ervices-FAQ569
Basically, what this says is that they won't allow you to buy artwork or video. Its because they don't want you using paypal to do sex shows and whatnot, it wasn't designed with furries in mind, so you can stop bitching about paypal hating furries. Any digital porn of any kind, is what is forbidden. Videos of yourself jacking off, pictures of your boobs/dick, drawn artwork, animated horse cock videos, etc. Its all "digital goods" and "porn". Nothing to do with furries specifically.
You can still buy adult things with paypal, such as dildos, for example. So paypal isn't shy of adult content, its just they don't want kids posting porn of themselves to get some money. I know a portion of you furries here masturbate on skype and demand paypal donations in exchange. :P But thats not what paypal is there for, its for business, not prostitution.
Now, the other reason that I saw people getting punished for and they never told anyone the truth about because its easier to say "paypal hates furries", is listed below the dashes.
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1) Requested payments in the form of donations, this is a tax evading method. Not to mention Paypal tracks the amount of donations received for the purposes of detecting such illegal activity.
2) Artists don't report their income to their government, this is a job, and it is self employment. If you make over a certain amount within a year, you can not claim to be unemployed. Some artists try to illegally abuse the system to get unemployment benefits and such while getting paid shit tons for drawing dicks all day.
All they'd need to do is visit my page and see it's filled with pornographic material before blocking me from using their service.
Wait..........
You mean I could have been getting paid all this time!!!!
All that pawing for free.......
However as long as the money just sits in PayPal you will almost never get found out and even in Australia you can do plenty with money on PayPal. That money isn't tied to your Tax File Number or any Australian bank account so the automated systems won't pick up on it, you would have to be personally investigated which in regards to PayPal is very hard for the Australian government to do.
Not declaring Commission income would also be tax avoidance as well.