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I have seen a few posts about getting Adsense payments paid offshore. And it seems that this is fine to do. Can anyone confirm this? Or have any comments about it.
I havent signed up yet for Adsensne but will do so very soon.
Obviously I do not live where my account is. Do I need to have a real address in the same country where my bank account is? For those of you that get paid via Electronic Funds Transfer...does anything ever get sent to the address that you put in the form when you signed up for Adsense?
Thanks
Welcome to WW.
Google will sent you a PIN-code when you reach I believe about $50.
You need it to activate your account before the first payment is made.
Furthermore Google sends out nice Christmas gifts when you reach a 'certain level' of income.
I'm no expert on this, but I have tried to do this recently. I say tried because I couldn't get it to work. As far as I understood you could get Adsense payments sent to an offshore bank account. For me this was a good idea because it meant I could store the payments in this account until the US Dollar rate got better. However, after setting up an account I was informed by Adsense support that they could not pay into a offshore account. In order to be able to do this, I needed an IBAN account number, which support could not give. Apparently, they will only send EFT in your domestic currency. You might have more luck with them, but this is my experience.
HTH
Whitenoise: I can get the IBAN for my account, no problem.
So you think in this case Google WILL pay offshore.
Are you a US tax payer?
If so then be very wary of what you try with putting your money "offshore". This could be seen by US authorities as evasion.
If you are not a US tax payer then there should be no problem receiving either by EFT to your nominated bank, in the currency you specify, or cheque to your Google registered address.
I vary my cheques between UK Sterling, US Dollars and Euros however there should be no problem receiving by EFT either.
Anyway, that's been my experience.
about getting Adsense payments paid offshore
Obviously I do not live where my account is.
As a UK resident if you earn money offshore it is illegal to not declare it. You can own offshore companies and those companies can earn money in their own right and not declare that money to HM Treasury. But when you withdraw any of that money - whether you get it transferred to the UK or use it elsewhere - you have to declare that money and pay tax.
And welcome to WW.
I have seen a few posts about getting Adsense payments paid offshore
To most of us that would probably mean getting some kind of money delivery in an ocean;-)
But I think you mean you are a US civilian living in an other country and you wonder if it would be possible to get paid there.
As long as you have a bank account, Google doesn't care.
I live in Holland and Google pays me by EFT. It doesn't matter if I am American or not. If I stay in some other country I just go to the local ATM and get my Google cash. But I guess you don't have a bank account at this time. Just open a bank account in the country where you live. To do that you need some kind of address in that country anyway. Use the same address for your Adsense account. Oh well, I guess I am to stupid to understand the problem...
