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how to sell your creations on the Internet legally?

Written by Administrator Tuesday, 07 June 2011 14:22

Sunday programmer: how to sell your creations on the Internet legally?
Simple solutions can distribute its software, while respecting the law.

You are employed and you develop your own and in your leisure small utilities that you distribute shareware (shareware software that can first test) on your website. If this hobby earns you money, it has to be legally.

You are what is called an independent software author and income from this activity are taxable under the category of non-commercial profits (BNC) and income from occasional activities. Registration for the Urssaf is not necessary, but it will make contributions to the Agessa (Association for the management of social security the authors).

Attention because this activity can become professional if you exercise "on a regular and constant" and the purpose of "profit". The fact that you do not withdraw the bulk of your assets does not change. If you regularly sell your works, it will then "structure" to declare separately the income of that business: sole proprietorship (EI) or Bic in the real, possibly EURL.

The EI scheme "microenterprise" is particularly suitable if your production costs are low and your annual turnover does not exceed 27 000 euros HT. His creation is simple, just go to the CFE (Centre for Business Formalities) of Urssaf.

In practice, you do not charge VAT (you do not recover) and there is no specific statement to determine your taxable income, it is sufficient to bring the total gross recipes in the special section of BNC your tax return.