22 Oct, 2021 Bridging the gap between DSTs and the new global tax system By Zoe Andrews A big driver for international tax reform (and certainly the motivation for the renewed interest in it by the US under the Biden...
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...
12 Mar, 2020 Budget 2020: an eye on innovation By Deeksha Rathi Understandably, dealing with the economic impact of Covid–19 dominated Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s first Budget. But the UK government...
03 Jan, 2020 Digital newspapers and VAT By Tanja Velling A Council Directive of November 2018 purported to finally allow Member States to apply a reduced or zero VAT rate to digital books and...
26 Nov, 2019 Is now a good time for a UK digital services tax? By Zoe Andrews The message was clear at last week's OECD public consultation on the reform of the international tax rules that there is a need to fix...
12 Jul, 2019 UK publishes draft legislation and guidance for digital services tax By Zoe Andrews On the same day as the US begins an investigation into whether the 3% digital services tax (DST) adopted by the French is damaging to US...