Hi all, Lately my store is going pretty well, so I decided that it is time to transfer my SL earnings to RL and see it as a RL income. I just have a lot of questions about how that works with paying taxes. I've searched a dozen of times through Googles pages but couldn't find any clear information except from 2007 that nobody knew how but that, of course, you have to pay taxes. I contacted a Dutch designer here in SL, she told me she pays 30% tax income and another 21% tax. That would be 51% tax on my earnings, which seems a lot to me, but hey, it is Holland right! I discussed this with my father and he came with the idea to not transfer the money to Holland, but keeping it in the US. So opening a bank account in the US (which is possible since I have family living in California, so I can provide an address), spending lots of my earnings there and bring the rest with me in my suitcase to Holland and never put it on a bank account. Has anyone done this? Or could it be done anyways? If so, what kind of taxes do you have to pay in California, can or how should I pay certain taxes since I am not an US resident? And what is all this 1099, w9 and brick and mortar law? If all of this is not possible and I can only transfer my money to Holland is it really true that you have to pay 51% tax in total (that Dutch designer told me this because that was how it was back in 2009 she said). Do I need to have a KvK number? (Don't know how that is called in English). Do I need to pay taxes after every payout or do I wait until April when filling in my taxes and wait for their answer how much I need to pay back exactly? What kind of forms do I need to fill in for SL or for the Dutch IRS? At the moment I cannot work, will things change for me when I am able to get back to work? I did had contact with a Dutch tax person, but he didn't know either how this would work with SL/online earnings. I am sorry for asking so many questions, probably more will come up later, but it's just a big mystery to me. I hope some of you can help me out with this. Thank you for reading all of this.