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Sales or income tax will be a problem though.



True. We'll probably have to make the poem and picture about Jesus and do it through our new church in New Hampshire.


I hear the standard practice is to have the IP of the poem owned by a foreign entity(Ireland is pretty popular) and then for the US entity to pay a royalty of $50 trillion to the foreign entity so that the net revenue in the US is zero.

I believe it has it's own name - The double Irish.


Yeah but then that only contributes to the GDP of Ireland, not the US.

Not coincidentally, Ireland has one of the highest GDP per capita in the world.


This only works within the European Union because the EU rules allow it.

It would not work between the US and Ireland.


Not if you sell in a state without income tax. And I imagine someone creative can probably find ways to make this not classify as income.


Solve the deficit at the same time!




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