However, once I set a price on the App Store in USD, there is a large variation in the amount
I will be paid from other countries and currencies as each country levies its own tax.
Any workarounds or ways in which I can tell the App Store what I want to be paid after taxes so
that prices are adjusted in each country accordingly??
In theory, that's what it is supposed to do. It is supposed to choose prices that give approximately
the same proceeds for all countries; at https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/manage-app-pricing/set-a-price
they say: "Automatically generated prices account for foreign exchange rates and certain taxes".
In practice, they've got it badly wrong in some cases. I think that in part this is because they round
customer prices to nice-looking numbers. For example, if I set my base GBP price to various values
between £1 and £2, the automatic USD prices are always either $0.99 or $1.99; it never
chooses anything in between. But that doesn't explain everything; I just discovered that a GBP base
price of £98.90 is automatically converted to AU$149.99, which gives 15% lower proceeds; a
much closer conversion would be AU$174.99.
This actually worked better before they introduced the current system last year.
So anyway... if you want the conversions to be more accurate than about +/- 30%, you will need to
set prices manually, at least for the most important regions. It is possible to automate the process
using the App Store Connect API; whether that is worth doing will depend on how many different
prices you have and how good you are at wrangling JSON and deciphering Apple's docs.
See also:
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/732527
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/744277
