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Alfa-eLearning · ‎07-29-2023

@CA_Abhishek what is the process to claim withholding tax using 1042-S form ? My CA is not much aware of complete process. Can you please help ?

Alfa-eLearning · ‎10-12-2022

@CA_Abhishek I am not worried bhai. My CA does all things for me. I just pass him all Udemy earning details. He said GST does not come in place for royalty income and here you have a different opinion from my CA so we are discussing.....

Alfa-eLearning · ‎10-12-2022

@LearnAnywhe151 This we talked about individual purchases. How about earnings from UFB ? For that we don't know how much we earn from Indian Companies.

Alfa-eLearning · ‎10-12-2022

Let's assume GST is applicable then can't it's credit claimed just like other businesses ?

Alfa-eLearning · ‎10-12-2022

@CA_Abhishek Here A & B both are collaborating to sell an item to C. A is providing it's expertise (content) and B is providing it's expertise (platform). Both are partners for selling an item to C. Do you think both partners will pay separate GST (18%) on same invoice ?

Alfa-eLearning · ‎10-12-2022

@CA_Abhishek Consider this as 2 partners running a business and have 1 GST number. After every sale of item they deduct 18% GST and whatever amount left they devide amoung themselves (percentage based revenue share)

Alfa-eLearning · ‎10-12-2022

@CA_Abhishek I found below GST number for Udemy India LLP and it says it is registered in Harayana state. 06AAFFU9763M1ZE

Alfa-eLearning · ‎10-12-2022

@CA_Abhishek As an instructor we have limited info with respect to particular purchase so I just provided that screenshot but @LearnAnywhe151 provided what indian student gets on purchase. Udemy sells to indian students and deducts GST. After that Udemy pays 37% to instructor as royalty. This 37% we instructors get as royalty NOT for selling anything to Udemy and Udemy already sold course(s) to students and did GST part. So how can GST comes into picture for this 37% instructor share ? I think it should be only income tax on this 37% money received on instructor end.

Alfa-eLearning · ‎10-12-2022

@CA_Abhishek "- No. Why Udemy collect GST on behalf of Indians? Udemy is a US based company, Udemy is not responsible for compliance w.r.t. indian gst is concerned." - Why they are not responsible ? Check below screenshot where Indian student purchased course and 18% tax deducted. Isn't it GST ? Not just India, I can see this kind of tax deductions for students from other countries as well. For Ex- Below one is Mexico where it is 16% tax. Below one is from UK where it is 20% tax. If they are following just US tax then the tax rate should be same for all these purchases but that's not case here. With Udemy we are NOT collecting money directly from buyers(students) and we are NOT issuing any invoice. Now let's say if I sell my courses directly to Indian students using my own website then I think I have to deduct & submit 18% GST to Indian government. "Consider it this way, suppose you sold service outside india eg. From Fiverr or other websites, do you pay taxes applicable to that other country? No, you just paid taxes applicable to you in your country." - With Udemy we pay US withholding tax for all purchases from US students @ 15% rate. Same Youtube does for the earnings from US. Also Fiverr & Freelancing websites etc are NOT royalty income but here on Udemy it is royalty income. @Bella Can you pls help in confirming if Udemy deducts 18% GST for Indian Students ?

Alfa-eLearning · ‎01-07-2022

@MurliJadhav007 I have received payment in my Paypal. GST is not required to receive payments in Paypal. For Indians, as per RBI guidelines Paypal requires PAN Card and verifying Bank Account.

Alfa-eLearning · ‎01-07-2022

@Suppoman™ Amazing achievement and congrats....

Alfa-eLearning · ‎01-03-2022

What I came to know is that we do not need to worry about GST as this is royalty income. Udemy takes GST from Indian students and submits to Indian Government. After deduction GST Udemy does revenue sharing i.e 37% to instructor. Also it's not us who are giving invoices to students.

Alfa-eLearning · ‎01-01-2022

I showed as business income. In that you can claim expenses that you did like buying a laptop, mic or anything related to your course creation. Better is check with your CA. Whatever TDS Udemy submitted to Indian government that much you need to pay less while filing ITR. I think we don't need GST for Udemy income. Yes if we sell on our own site then we might need GST.

Alfa-eLearning · ‎12-31-2021

Before few days same thing happened when I saw 26AS traces. I had doubts as 26AS traces was showing TDS from Udemy. So I dropped mail with 26AS traces and this is what Udemy support team replied. May be this can help you. Check highlighted lines.

Alfa-eLearning · ‎12-28-2021

On revenue report page you will see expected payment date. For more info check below article. https://support.udemy.com/hc/en-us/articles/229232207-Instructor-Revenue-Report

Alfa-eLearning · ‎12-28-2021

@TomOrbach305 To be honest I don't see any issue with your English accent. If your course does not require your face to record then you can have courses with screen casting and your voice. All of my courses are like this because those do not need my face. I have seen top earning instructors doing outsourcing of work but that is like editing, answering in QA section by hiring an assistant etc but they record their lectures themselves. Even some courses are having 30+ or 50+ hours of content. Also Udemy may ask you more info if you publish a course on your name recorded by someone else. Make sure you check with policy@udemy.com before doing this. "I will make mistakes and lose my breath very often, and thus have to record more re-takes and re-takes." I am enjoying this. If I have a bad cut during recording then I laugh there on myself and again I laugh during editing while I listen that part...ha ha... I have seen some instructors even re-record their 8-10 hours course if they want to improve the course quality even more. "Even if it's objectively good, I'm really not comfortable with my spoken English..." It seems you have already made up your mind on what you want to do. I can just say best of luck to you whatever approach you are going to take.

Alfa-eLearning · ‎12-28-2021

@TomOrbach305 Can you share one video with your voice which is in English ? My mother tongue is not English and there are many like me and you. Majority of my students don't find any difficulty with my English but I am getting some reviews related to my English accent. I tried to improve as I was able to but obviously I can't match with everyone's English accent. Has anybody told you that you are speaking very bad English OR your accent is bad ? Or Is it just your own opinion ? When I published my first course I did not have this kind of things in my mind. I was focusing on what I want to teach. I think you are yet to publish your very first course so I would say launch a course and see how your students will react. You can share few videos here in community and different instructors can give their opinion. Also Udemy has Test Video section where they provide you complete feedback on your video & audio. https://www.udemy.com/home/teaching/test-video/

Alfa-eLearning · ‎11-07-2021

@ADchauhdry Do you have YouTube channel ? You can offer few lectures on YouTube for free and drive traffic to Udemy or your own website. I have seen these topics are having high demand on YouTube. You can also target your country's syllabus or competitive exams. You can look for "Physics Wallah - Alakh Pandey" channel for reference. He is from India and doing well on YouTube.

Alfa-eLearning · ‎03-17-2021

@LawrenceMMiller if that's not equally done then why to have equal revenue share of 37% ? Let instructors decide to opt in or out like now we are having option. Again I would say ad/affiliate sale doesn't mean it came from promotion only. Chances are that organic sale turned into ad/affiliate sale within 7 days period.

Alfa-eLearning · ‎03-17-2021

@PhillipBurton both the scenarios you took are applicable when ads/affiliates earning is equal or greater than organic. For scenario 1, $400 is revenue so actually $1600 total sales from ads/affiliates and $800 sales from organic. Now just swap these numbers i.e $1600 sales from organic and $800 from ads/affiliates, so as per current your revenue will be $800 + $200 = $1000 which is less than $888 For scenario 2, $1600 total sales from ads/affiliates and $400 sales from organic. Seems like you have swapped numbers while doing calculation. So with new system it will be $2000*0.37 = $740. My point here is, it all depends on how much gap you have between organic and ads+affiliates. The more organic then chances are more that it will be more drop in revenue. But if new marketing can fill that gap then it will be minimal impact. With Ads/affiliates you may see high revenue but that does not mean its just because course is promoted. It may happen existing Udemy students land on Udemy from paid ad of other course and they do not buy anything. Now after 3-4 days they directly hit Udemy URL and buy your course by searching. This will still count as ad sale and NOT as organic.

Alfa-eLearning · ‎03-17-2021

@Ryan if its from US then it will be $3.15 revenue and fact is some students think with this amount they have hired personal tutor.

Alfa-eLearning · ‎03-16-2021

@LawrenceMMiller Udemy is trying to sell at some high price but don't forget taxes from various countries. 15% US tax, 18% GST from India and same kind of taxes from other countries. So at the end it is almost same revenue. Earlier $9.99 sale from US was giving $5 revenue and now $11.99 sale is giving $5.1. In same way earlier INR 360 was giving $2.5 revenue and now INR 455 is giving revenue as $2.66.

Alfa-eLearning · ‎03-16-2021

@LawrenceMMiller I understand the volume game but every time its not the only way to boost. If that's the case then make course price as INR 99 ($1.37). Udemy has lot of students from India so it will surely increase volume but the question is why to do this ?

Alfa-eLearning · ‎03-16-2021

Another point is how much % chances that the course being promoted via ads/affiliates is the one who is getting sold ? Cookie period is 7 days for ads and affiliates. I am Udemy affiliate as well, so I have that data with me and it happened to me that the course I promoted does not get sold but after 3-4 days other 5 courses got sold !!!! Combining instructor and affiliate data will give completely different picture. I know now promotion will be by category. But affiliate will promote the particular course only.

Alfa-eLearning · ‎03-16-2021

Say if instructor is earning $1000 from organic sales and NOT opted in Udemy ads and affiliates. So total sales is $2000 (Udemy share + instructor share). Now with new revenue share model for the instructor to earn same i.e $1000, it will require total sales of $2700. Then only it will be 2700 * 0.37 = $999. So this extra $700 is 35% of $2000 sales. @KatieBent its interesting to see if we can have boost of 35% in total sales to earn the same revenue.

Alfa-eLearning · ‎03-16-2021

@KatieBent will subscription courses need to be exclusive like UFB ?

Alfa-eLearning · ‎03-16-2021

On 6th May 2020, I opted out from Udemy ads and affiliates and it has increased total revenue and revenue per student. Earlier I was opted in from 2014. Now on 3rd May 2021, I will automatically opted in for Udemy ads and affiliates. Not all instructors' courses will get promoted that much so lets see how this 13% gap can be filled to have minimal impact on total revenue.

Alfa-eLearning · ‎03-16-2021

@KatieBent I understand that all Udemy courses will get eligible for paid promotion. But instructors who opted out of affiliate and ads had some reason right ? That's why they opted out from promotions made by affiliate and Udemy ads.

Alfa-eLearning · ‎03-16-2021

@AshishR seems like its for marketplace only.

Alfa-eLearning · ‎03-16-2021

Instructors who are not using affiliate and ads, for them its 37% instead of 50%. By that 13% is not small amount. "We designed this change to be as seamless as possible for instructors. The new share is derived from the actual historical average share for all paid and organic sales." Does it mean instructors are forced to opt in for affiliates and ads ?

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