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Digital Taxes, Big Tech In Regulatory Focus As 2020 Dawns

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As 2020 dawns, regulators are continuing to focus on taxes and possible anti-competitive behavior on the part of tech’s marquee names. Russian regulators are seemingly taking aim at larger U.S. tech firms, placing laws on the books that would restrict content offered by those companies. Across the Pond.

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France Looks To Create Its Own Home Booking Platform

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This time, the French government said, it plans to team up with the country’s tourism industry to build an internet site whose ultimate goal is to grab customers away from the likes of Airbnb and Booking Holdings. Airbnb has been fighting with the French government over such issues as providing data to tax authorities.

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Indonesia Reduces Import Tax Threshold To Protect Smaller Firms

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Indonesia has announced it’s going to reduce the threshold for taxing imported eCommerce consumer goods from $75 to $3, to help control the purchases of cheap foreign goods and help protect smaller Indonesian firms, according to a report by Reuters. They’ll be taxed at a rate of 32.5 million last year and 6.1 percent to 37.5

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Albania Rolling Out E-Invoicing System To Ensure Tax Compliance

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Albania has announced it will implement a new online billing system to prevent businesses from circumventing tax payments and to boost revenue in the country, according to a report by Reuters. The minister said that 1,600 hotels on a booking site were not registered with the proper tax authorities.

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London’s Airbnb Regulations Will Cost The Company $400M

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That news follows separate data recently released by the FT that indicates around 1/3 of the savings Airbnb offers over traditional hotels stems from tax advantages deriving from its business model. In London, around half of the nights booked on Airbnb last year would be put at risk by the 90-day limit. billion in 2017.

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Bitcoin And The Bitter Tax Bite

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And lest you think changes in tax policy sow confusion only in the United States, think again. Bitcoin breeched a key psychological barrier on news that the South Korean government would tax income earned by virtual currency exchanges to the tune of 24.2 Kraken allows trading on margin, “but order books are thin,” he said.

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Book Report: The Unbanking of America by Lisa Servon

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That is how the book ended. Without further anticipation, here are the book's takeaways with a little editorial commentary from me: Amazon Link 1. There were ideas in the book to accomplish this that I must report to you: a) Subsidize banks to serve customers with financial instability who are not profitable.

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