7/16/2020 10:53:11 AM 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...
6/19/2020 12:43:26 PM 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...
4/8/2020 7:47:21 AM 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...
5/21/2019 12:00:00 AM 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...
5/17/2019 12:00:00 AM 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...
3/14/2019 10:29:58 AM 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...
3/7/2019 2:56:26 PM 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...
2/26/2019 3:17:11 PM 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...