India ditches its 'Google Tax' after US waved a big stick
Stakeholders found it an 'ambiguous' compliance burden and the world has moved on – or tried to
Public Sector25 Jul 2024 | 19
Digital Services Tax
Tech giants looking for ways to wriggle out of UK digital tax, watchdog warns
Delays to OECD plan means interim fix could be found wanting
Off-Prem05 Apr 2023 | 49
US drops tariff threat against nations who dished out digital taxes to American tech giants as OECD members hash out new deal
15% tax minimum to hit tech firms
PaaS + IaaS22 Oct 2021 | 6
Labour Party proposes raising UK Digital Services Tax (so Amazon can pass the hike on that, too?)
Retailers not enthused
Off-Prem29 Sep 2021 | 76
Philippines approves digital services tax on streaming services, apps, even SaaS
Digital imports aren't currently taxed at all, and COVID means the government is keen to find new revenue sources
Legal22 Sep 2021 | 5
US slaps tariffs on countries that hit Big Tech with digital services taxes ... then pauses them immediately
Applies pressure as negotiations on harmonized global web levies near conclusion
Legal03 Jun 2021 | 42
BROADER TOPICS
US backs down from slapping import taxes on French goods over Macron's web giant tax
Officials instead probe similar levies mulled by UK, India, Europe
Legal08 Jan 2021 | 18
Big Tech’s Asian lobby says nations shouldn’t go it alone on tech taxes
Asks if somebody will think of the startups in the wake of new digital services taxes in Indonesia, Vietnam and Philippines
Legal14 Oct 2020 | 4
Indonesia starts taxing Minecraft, Skype, Zoom and Twitter
Regional video streaming companies added to list of entities required to pay Digital Services Tax
Legal10 Sep 2020 | 7
Google, Amazon pass on UK Digital Services Tax by hiking ad prices, fees at same rate the government takes
Which means you get to pay, because cost of ads, sellers' fee hikes are built into prices, so once the tech titans charge more ... you get the drift
Legal02 Sep 2020 | 86
Three Facebooks, four more Amazons and one Apple to collect Indonesia’s digital services tax
And so will TikTok and Disney, with more to come
Personal Tech11 Aug 2020 | 5
Indonesia slaps 10 percent tax on three Googles
But only on one AWS, one Spotify and one Netflix - and zero Microsofts
Legal09 Jul 2020 | 5
Philippines floats digital services tax – and Uber’s local arm surprisingly applauds
Aims to fill post-pandemic coffers and level the local playing field
Legal20 May 2020 | 5
Indonesia imposes 10% digital services tax
To boost the post-pandemic tax base
Legal18 May 2020 | 18
Biting the hand that feeds IT
