Article 6MH5C Apple gives small developers more ways around its alternative app store tax

Apple gives small developers more ways around its alternative app store tax

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Apple is exempting more developers from the Core Technology Fee (CTF) it introduced in the European Union. In an update on Thursday, Apple announced that developers of free apps without monetization won't have to pay the new fee.

To qualify, Apple says free apps must not have revenue of any kind," including money made from physical or digital goods, as well as advertising. This condition is intended to give students, hobbyists, and other non-commercial developers an opportunity to create a popular app without paying the CTF," Apple writes in the update.

The company also says small developers with less than 10 million in global annual business revenue will receive a three-year free on-ramp" to the CTF to help them create innovative...

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