Even YouTube Is Chilling Out on Weed
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In a Wednesday update posted to the company’s ad-friendly content guidelines, YouTube announced it would be easing up on the monetisation restrictions for certain kinds of content dealing with “recreational drugs and drug-related content,” among other topics.
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Published on: Tuesday, March 16, 2021
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Google said in a support page that it may be required to deduct up to 24% of total earnings worldwide – not just income earned from US viewers – if content creators don’t submit their tax info by May 31. Reuters pic
PETALING JAYA: YouTubers in Malaysia who are under the YouTube Partner Program will be required to pay taxes to the United States starting later this year and it could be as early as June.
The Partner Program allows content creators to generate income from ads as long as they have more than 1,000 subscribers.