Mon, 19 May 2003
My head hurts ...
I have just been playing telephone tag with the Inland
Revenue. This is what comes of selling foreign language rights
to fiction abroad, and of not wanting to pay income tax on the
royalties twice over. I think I'm getting a headache. Did you
know that according to the Inland Revenue, there are more than 1,300 double taxation
treaties world-wide and the UK has the largest network of
treaties, covering over 100 countries?
You know your questions are getting obscure to the point of
surrealism when you discover that they've got a specialist
Reverse Double Taxation Group, but only one person in
the office actually understands what you're asking, and
her answer boils down to "write to the Ministry of
Finance in Moscow and tell us what they say, we'd love to know."
(Mind you, I now know
that the place where they've got the answers is: State Revenue
Department, Ministry of Finance, Ulitsa Kuibysheva 9, Moscow
103097.)
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