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Mexico To Tax Digital Services From Other Countries

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Mexico passed a law this week that taxes digital services from other countries, according to a report. A 16 percent value-added tax (VAT) will be tacked onto digital services starting on June 1 of this year. The tax will cover all online applications, including video, audio streaming, images, education and others.

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Things worth reading: September 13, 2019

Chris Skinner

Things we’re reading today include … Deutsche Bank is first to settle bond-rigging lawsuit, amid federal probe Hong Kong’s bourse seeks to snap up the London Stock Exchange Steven Mnuchin begins reforming America’s giant mortgage-guarantee firms Google to pay €1bn to end French tax probe Hong Kong stock market operator … The post (..)

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Will eSports And Other Online Businesses Spike Digital Taxes?

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Historians and economists regularly look to tax policies to get a sense of what happened within a particular industry, society or country. No doubt the chronicles to come about the rise of the internet age and the spread of digital culture will include serious treatment of tax issues. Taxing Confusion. billion in 2022.”.

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Xero Targets Taxes With Instafile Acquisition

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Cloud accounting software firm Xero is broadening its reach in the small business tax filing space through an acquisition of Instafile. based Instafile to integrate its cloud-based tax preparation and filing solution. The company connects accountants, bookkeepers and small businesses to tax authorities to maintain compliance.

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France To Move Ahead With Tech Tax In January

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France, which had vowed to start taxing Google , Apple , Facebook , and Amazon in December if the European Union failed to agree on a digital tax, now says the tax will be implemented on January 1. If the European states do not take their responsibilities on taxing the GAFA, we will do it at a national level in 2019.”.

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Bitcoin Daily: ECB Tightens Scrutiny On Crypto Transactions; Tax Bill Would End Double Crypto Tax

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And it pointed out that the lack of hard transaction information that encompasses off- and on-chain activity makes for a partial view of the market for digital assets. Ted Budd (NC) has reintroduced the Virtual Value Tax Fix Act, Coindesk reported. In other news, U.S.

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France Anxious To Tax Apple, Google, Other Tech Giants

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17) that he wants France to start taxing big tech giants beginning Jan. 1, 2019, according to a report. He pushed for an EU-wide digital tax for the end of 2018. He pushed for an EU-wide digital tax for the end of 2018. “We He expects the new tax revenue could be up to $565 million in 2019.

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