Good find, thank you!

In this case it would actually be Apple filing information specifically about my taxes, not theirs. Accountant says Apple reports revenue/sales/etc. tied to my business number to the CRA directly on my behalf and that what I then later submit needs to match. That's the issue, he's saying I should have an invoice for this payment but I cannot find it. Yeah, he said it's a mess and he asked around his firm and no one knows anything about app sales. I'll give them a call, thanks!

Thanks for responding! Agreed, in that scenario I wouldn't expect to. In this case the accountant is suggesting it's kind of like the product is on consignment at a consignment store and they are charging a commission for selling your product and you pay a sales tax on that service. He said a physical consignment store where you pay commission (versus just selling a widget at the wholesale price to a retailer) charges sales tax on that service/commission.

Thanks for responding, I wrote back in the main thread below since this was limited to a small amount of text.

thanks for responding!

Apple Wiki is also going with the above list you provided so going with that for now!

I use that list too, didn't see the comments with the above info until you pointed it out, thanks for responding!

Wondering if you are seeing something similar again the past few days? I see even numbers of sales past few days and my proceeds more than doubled, so either app is taking off or another error. What worries me is my ad spend max budget is based off of a percentage of my sales, sure would suck if my sales were imaginary and my ad search ad bill was real. When I've been looking at hourly sales info I don't see double amounts though, events happen randomly during day

Thanks Kevin, I hadn't thought about the history of it, even though I've had those different accounts over the years! I'll go back to the clients and see what exactly they have disabled and ask if they can try different configurations that meet their goal of blocking file upload to iCloud without also blocking sign in. II imagine they just selected every option available to ensure the most restrictions. I looked at the reference you mentioned and see what you mean, not a simple "block iCloud".

Hi Ed, thanks for responding. I'm performing forensic work on devices for government and corporate clients and would like to ensure I'm accessing as much information as possible and this file is the only spot currently not being assessed. It may be totally worthless for forensic purposes but without being able to assess it, I cannot be sure. Thank you

I think you're on to something.... Even starting June 17th (but still in line with normal volume of units) all the way through July 1st but June 20-29 units are double the long term trend so probably 17, 18 and 19 and 30th were just coincidently even, the rest got doubled.

Lesson learned for me, I need to start tracking sales myself. Right now I'm just using StoreKit to check subscription status on device, need to start sending data to my servers when purchase button pressed and succeeds.

Is there a specific email address for this topic or just generic support one? Any word back from them?

No, all regular user sales, not institutional, and no big spikes in sales volume.

Thanks Quinn for responding. Is there some way for me to check which special entitlements an app in the App Store has (i.e. not one of mine) so I can figure out how they were able to do this? Two apps in particular are doing exactly what I want to do, same use case basically, so if they used the local push connectivity entitlement it would bolster my request for the special entitlement. Thanks, Colin