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0 pointsrekttrader3y ago0 comments

They’re part of the reason it’s not free any more.

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gl-prod3y ago· 3 in thread

Well, Salesforce could have made the free dynos non-commercial only

9999000009993y ago

That's even worse, so when your hobbyist project accidentally makes 40$ Salesforce can send it's legal team after you?

Marsymars3y ago

I would prevent any hobbyist project of mine from making $40 for tax reasons alone, where the difference the to tax authorities between $0 and $40 is basically the same as the difference to a Saleforce non-commercial clause. At $0 I don’t have to do anything about taxes. At $40 it’s immediately in the red due to whatever time I have to spend sorting out taxes for $40 in revenue.

TJSomething3y ago

I'm not an accountant, but for the US in 2021, that was Form 1040, Schedule 1: Additional Income and Adjustments to Income, Part 1: Additional Income, line 8: Other income, sub-line i: Activity not engaged in for profit income. You would just put $40 on that sub-line and add it to your adjusted gross income. If you made only $40 on it, I don't it can reasonably be called self-employment income, per Publication 535.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i1040gi#en_US_2021_publink1...

[1] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p535.pdf

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