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Eddy Vinck
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The short answer is that you should talk to an accountant who can give you actual advise for your circumstances. It’s either that or MOR if you’re in EU. I am using Stripe and would not want to figure this all out by myself or based on info on the internet. I know this doesn’t really help but it’s the only answer.
Both are true but given my circumstances charging 21% is easier here
Got a response from my accountant
For legal reasons etc I’ll say this is not financial advice and you should talk to a professional yourself
my accountant recommends charging 21% Dutch tax to only consumers from the EU until I hit 10k per year in revenue and pay my taxes in The Netherlands for those consumer customers. Once I hit 10k ARR then I’ll have to start paying tax in other EU countries themselves.
Just need to figure out how to charge a flat 21% to those EU consumer customers only.
@EddyVinck, you don't charge a flat 21% to all EU consumer customers. You apply the VAT rate based on their country (20% in France for instance). If they are businesses, they provide their VAT ID, so you don’t add VAT to their bill.
Both are true but given my circumstances charging 21% is easier here
Ok thank you for the long response! I might have to create some tools to get the right data for my accountant as well I think at some point.
I’m not sure we need to look into it together more, they have experience with other PSP but not Stripe yet
I'm using Stripe Tax and Stripe Checkout, which calculates the tax and generates the invoices + receipts. It works nicely. Need to do a followup call with my accountant to discuss it further.
What's the reason he wants you to charge tax where Stripe Tax dictates zero?
I’m not sure we need to look into it together more, they have experience with other PSP but not Stripe yet
I created a Discord for Blog Recorder where I share what I'm working on and also when it has shipped, but I should also really start doing product update emails soon. I would probably do it at most 1x per month with all the new stuff.
Have you validated the project somehow?
And are you 100% sure on the current name?
If both are yes, then maybe! It's a lot of money otherwise
I got lucky and got my .com for $20 after it expired though
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Has anyone been playing with DeepSeek yet? The Chinese AI model that is apparently pretty advanced and dirt cheap to use compared to OpenAI?
What are the pros and cons?
I’ve only seen it mentioned a lot online, I haven’t checked it out yet myself. (Working only on my marketing site redesign at the moment)
Our entire team of 40+ at Raftlabs switched to Deepseek.
Most of them switched from Cursor & Windsurf.
Yes I use it from time to time, in my repertoire of LLMs. I do not use the app, yet (just like i don't use tiktok), but maybe I will. I know it has limitations around chinese history, but know your LLM masters. It can be hooked into Cursor, as a model. I believe overall, its a good thing, to have more LLMs, and if they really did train it so cheaply, we are going to have an explosion of models, which can only be a good thing. Cheaper = good for us, the end user (and the app developers). And google is responding with gemini already, so the tl;dr is yes, use everything, and competition is awesome.