How PS4 players are avoiding PlayStation Network sales tax

Some PS4 players are using an illegal method to avoid PlayStation Network sales tax, thus reducing the price of PS Store purchases.

It’s totally illegal to avoid PlayStation Network sales tax which has rolled out across many States in the U.S., with more regions now being included as from April 2017, but some unscrupulous players have found a way around it, thus reducing the amount they have to pay for the games they download on the PlayStation Network.

The sales tax applies to anything you buy from the PlayStation Store, so any item purchased from PlayStation Vue, PlayStation Now, PlayStation Music and PlayStation Plus either is right now, or will be affected by the US tax in certain States. You'll see the additional tax price underneath the price of the game when you check out at the Store.

Apparently, players are taking the following steps to avoid PlayStation Network sales tax.

1. Setting up a billing address on their PSN account that is in a State or Country which doesn't require you to pay PlayStation Network tax, such as the UK.

2. Instead of using a credit card or debit card (which may have to show the same address as the billing address), they’re paying for their digital goods on the PlayStation Store via Paypal or using PSN top-up cards.

Note: This PSN tax avoidance method is illegal and certainly not recommended.

http://www.psu.com/news/32376/how-to-avoid-playstation-network-sales-tax

Always find articles like this funny.

It reminds me of watching TV and there is a news commercial quick going "New way kids are getting high that is dangerous and deadly. Find out how tonight at 6"

Sure those stories are helpful to say parents that may have kids that are doing this to see the signs, or to warn kids doing this of the dangers, but to me those stories just go and tell millions of people a new way to get high that they probably never ever heard of.

This article will probably get now many new people to see this and start abusing the system as well to save $5 on games.

That's also like, "Here's an emulator that will run your classic ROMs, but we don't condone piracy."

Well many of us don't live in the US and don't want to pay extra on our psn purchases. Otherwise we'll just buy them from our native psn

Taxes are most definitely not used to make a country better. They basically just feed a giant bureaucracy, or pay jackbooted thugs to crack down on the rights of citizens, or feed into a military that does nothing but conduct offensive wars.  All humans have a basic duty to avoid taxation as much as possible.

People would actually want to setup a UK PSN just to save money... that doesn't seem right.

That's probably just the address itself.  Otherwise, buying DLC with a UK account will not be compatible with a NA game release.

Lol, Americans are using UK accounts to avoid being taxed? The irony! 

Is this a joke? The prices in the UK-PSN and most (all?) other European PSN-Stores already include sales tax.