16 Jul, 2020 A simpler and more modern tax environment sounds good – but what about tax competition? By Zoe Andrews The Apple case is seen as raising the (very) hot topic of how a multinational group like Apple should be taxed in a modern, digital...
19 Jun, 2020 Digital Services Taxes: How “rough and ready” could become the new normal By Deeksha Rathi The UK’s Digital Services Tax (“DST”), which is a 2% levy on certain revenues derived from search engines, social media services and...
08 Apr, 2020 India’s amended equalisation levy: a change players in the digital economy could not have foreseen By Deeksha Rathi On 1 February 2020, the Indian Finance Minister delivered the country’s longest Budget speech ever. However, there was no mention of...
21 May, 2019 Taxing the digital economy: my way or the highway will not lead to a longer-term solution By Deeksha Rathi There is a common recent development in the tax systems of the UK, France, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Italy, and Spain. All of...
17 May, 2019 Polish retail tax State aid case paves the way for digital services taxes By Zoe Andrews Poland introduced a progressive tax based on turnover in 2016. Small shops with low monthly turnover paid no tax, whereas large...
14 Mar, 2019 EU scraps digital tax plan: all eyes now on the OECD By Deeksha Rathi On 12 March 2019, EU governments dropped plans to introduce an EU-wide digital tax. Despite months of talks, the Member States failed to...
07 Mar, 2019 France's tech tax provokes outrage By Slaughter and May The French finance minister has brought forward legislation to introduce (retrospectively from 1 January) a 3% digital services tax to be...
26 Feb, 2019 VAT and the Future of Journalism By Deeksha Rathi In 2018, the UK government launched an independent review, led by veteran journalist Dame Frances Cairncross, to understand what could be...