Digital tax issue: US suspends additional tariffs on India, 5 other countries
United States Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai, in a statement, announced the conclusion of the one-year Section 301 investigations of Digital Service Taxes (DSTs) adopted by Austria, India, Italy, Spain, Turkey and the UK.
Jun 02, 2021, 23:16 PM IST
France to impose digital tax on big tech cos like Google, Facebook, Apple despite US retaliation threat
Past attempts to create an EU-wide digital tax have failed in the face of opposition from Ireland, where many big U.S. tech companies book profits, and some Nordic countries.
Nov 25, 2020, 18:26 PM IST
Global lobbying groups call for delay to India's new digital tax
From April 1 India imposed a new 2% tax on foreign billings, or transactions where companies take payment abroad for digital services provided in India. The tax also applies to foreign e-commerce transactions on sites such as Amazon.com.
Apr 29, 2020, 13:52 PM IST
France uses Davos to pursue global 'digital tax' goal
US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the issue in a phone call on Sunday, with both sides sounding positive afterwards, in contrast to the threats the U.S. has made to impose tariffs on exports of champagne and other luxury goods in retaliation for a French digital tax.
Jan 23, 2020, 15:37 PM IST
