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DECEMBER 4, 2018

France and Germany have come up with a compromise for a European Union (EU)-wide digital tax, abandoning a wide-ranging 3 percent tax on revenues generated by ad sales in the digital economy. According to the Financial Times ( FT ), the new version would target tech giants like Facebook and Google through their sales of advertising.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Amid the continuing drumbeat for taxes on global commerce done through digital means, the Czech government has approved a new seven percent digital tax on global Internet firms which will, as Reuters reports , be levied on revenues tied to Czech users across advertising, digital marketplaces and data sales. Health Records and Google.

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MARCH 6, 2019

The European Union has announced that it will not move forward with a digital tax plan covering the entire EU, but also said it would look at reforming tax laws for internet companies, according to a report from Reuters. The global tax reform is being prepared by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Italy has announced that it’s going to follow in France’s footsteps and tax big tech companies, a move that threatens to further complicate relations with the United States over the issue, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. France recently announced a similar move, and the new Italy tax will take effect on Jan.

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JULY 7, 2020

Starting next month, it will cost Amazon, Netflix, Spotify and Google more to do business in Indonesia. The tax is in response to an expected 13 percent drop in state collections as the coronavirus took its toll on revenues. Amazon Web Services, Google and Spotify did not respond to requests for comment.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2020

G20 officials want to optimize taxes from tech giants like Google in a bid to help raise revenues in countries around the world, they said Sunday. New rules by the OECD outline the steps to do this, saying it could boost tax revenues by $100 billion a year. The G20 comments were mostly focused on the U.S.,

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Governments around the world are setting their sights on putting a variety of digital taxes on Big Tech giants. France has long been angling to levy digital taxes, although such moves have become a bone of contention with the United States and have faced significant delays. billion of French goods. billion of French goods. Indonesia .

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Govindacharya have asked lawmakers in India to call leaders of Google and Facebook to the country to ask them about data privacy and their compliance on tax laws, according to a report from Reuters. Indian activists with the New Delhi-based Centre For Accountability And Systemic Change (CASC) and right-wing activist K.N.

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MARCH 19, 2020

Google’s workforce in Europe will soon have representation by European Works Councils (EWCs) after 153 employees from 11 offices advocated for one, according to a Bloomberg report on Thursday (March 19). Google is now starting the process and will meet with employees about its breadth, the sources said.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

OECD’s Tax Reform To Be Presented To G20. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) , which is based in France, said its worldwide tax reform blueprint will be put in front of the Group of 20 finance ministers. France Will Proceed With Controversial Digital Services Tax Plan.

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JANUARY 6, 2020

As 2020 dawns, regulators are continuing to focus on taxes and possible anti-competitive behavior on the part of tech’s marquee names. One continuing theme that will play out into the new year (and well beyond): taxes. The tax took effect at the beginning of this year. Russian regulators are seemingly taking aim at larger U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The latest news on Apple, Google, Facebook and other Big Tech firms that are coming under increasing scrutiny from regulatory watchdogs, trade organizations and politicians globally. Canadian Lawmakers Want Big Tech to Pay for Content, Taxes . EU Renews Demand for Back Taxes on Apple’s Ireland Ops. Regulations. are over.".

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Italy has announced that it’s going to follow in France’s footsteps and tax big tech companies, a move that threatens to further complicate relations with the United States over the issue, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. France recently announced a similar move, and the new Italy tax will take effect on Jan.

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JUNE 9, 2019

The Group of 20 finance ministers said over the weekend that they will come up with common rules to prevent tech companies from using tactics to lower taxes. and France have been big supporters by making it harder for tech companies to move profits to low-tax countries. having to pay more taxes overseas. and overseas.

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

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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MARCH 12, 2019

Treasury official said a French tax plan targeting American digital companies is discriminatory against American businesses. Treasury’s top international tax official, called the taxes “ill-conceived,” and said the better option was to go after tax reform internationally at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ).

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JULY 2, 2020

Facebook ’s Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai of Google , Apple ’s Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos from Amazon are expected to face no-holds-barred questions from lawmakers about the tech giants’ business practices. Pichai testified in 2018 over charges that Google is politically biased in its treatment of content.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Group Seeks to Block Maryland Online Advertising Tax. Marylanders for Tax Fairness is preparing for a battle in January over the state’s attempt to make a digital advertising tax, the Baltimore Sun reported. Maryland legislators ratified the tax earlier in 2020, but Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed the levy. percent to 10 percent.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

With a 3 percent digital tax passed by the French government, Amazon is hiking seller fees for small and medium-sized businesses in France beginning in the fall. The eCommerce company cited the tax as the reason for the increase, CNBC reported. The tax was reportedly to apply to approximately 30 major companies, mainly from the U.S.,

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Google said that 100 percent of donations made before Feb. Users were also provided with a year-end receipt for tax deduction purposes. . The app will be listed in the Google Graveyard called Killed by Google, an open-source list of discontinued Google services, products, devices and apps.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Scrutiny of tech firms is spreading across the globe, hinting at broader regulations over privacy and, possibly, bigger tax bills. In one example, Indonesia is “already preparing legislation” that would require tech companies with online services to pay value-added tax on local sales, the report noted. Libra, Too.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

France will postpone payment requirements on its newly levied digital services tax aimed at large tech companies like Facebook and Google due to a dispute with the U.S. The payments were due in April, and Washington took issue with the tax, which it said is unfair and discriminatory toward the U.S. .

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Germany, France, Italy and Spain’s finance ministers have announced plans to tax tech multinationals, such as Amazon and Alphabet Inc./ Google, based on their local revenue rather than their local profits. In July, Google won a tax ruling from a French court, which found that Google isn’t liable for $1.3

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APRIL 10, 2019

France’s lower parliament has passed a proposed tax that targets the revenue of tech giants like Google , Amazon and Facebook. Last month, France’s finance minister announced the 3 percent tax, which targets digital businesses with €750 million ($845 million USD) in global revenue and €25 million in domestic revenue.

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MARCH 31, 2016

Maybe tax season has mobile users worrying about their credit history, or contemplating borrowing some cash? Tax worries seem to already be a thing of the past. Google Wallet rose to seventh place on Android, while IRS2Go dropped Read More.

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MARCH 16, 2018

Reuters reported news on Friday (March 16) that big players in the tech space that get a significant portion of their top line from digital activities — think Google and Facebook, for example — may face a tax from the European Union (EU) as high as 3 percent of turnover. Kallmer’s statements came to Reuters in an emailed statement.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Today’s coverage includes the latest European push to tax such companies as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. France’s Finance Minister Wants EU-Wide Digital Tax By Year End. The new tax would apply to Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon so that they are paying what the government sees as a fairer tax rate in the region.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

France is plowing ahead with its vision for a European Union-wide digital tax, with the country’s Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire saying he wants the tax approved by the end of 2018. According to the report, some member states think the tax would hurt smaller countries, or potentially some of the more traditional industries.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

According to a report in CNBC , citing the report published by the ACCC, the government watchdog listed a series of remedies, which include creating a government agency that would be tasked with regulating how the likes of Facebook and Google publish news on their platforms.

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MARCH 21, 2018

The European Commission is gearing up to propose new rules later Wednesday (March 21) that would require digital companies to pay more taxes — and the rules could include U.S. technology companies Google and Facebook. The news service noted it’s not a slam dunk that the new tax requirement will be approved.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

Italian competition regulators are probing the Alphabet-owned search and tech giant amid allegations Google has abused its power atop the country’s display ad market, Reuters reported Wednesday (Oct. The probe in Italy comes as Google also faces anti-trust investigations around the world on part of regulators in the U.S.,

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MAY 6, 2020

Following complaints from employees who are teleworking and say they miss office perks such as free food and fitness, Google adopted a policy prohibiting expensing those extras while working from home, according to internal documents seen by CNBC. It also comes as executives prepare for what they said will be a difficult second quarter.

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MAY 16, 2018

Seattle’s city council has approved a new tax for the city’s biggest companies, including Amazon , to combat a housing crisis impacting the city’s working class. The new tax was passed with a 9-0 vote, and would affect most companies grossing at least $20 million a year.

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MARCH 15, 2019

Google and its parent company Alphabet could be facing an antitrust fine from the European Union in the coming weeks over its AdSense advertising product. At the time, Google had 80 percent of the Euro market for search ads, and had apparently kept its anti-competition ad practice up for 10 years. Google was hit with a 4.34

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Advertisers in Europe are taking a hit as Apple and Amazon join Google in passing along the cost of new taxes aimed at Big Tech by the United Kingdom and other European governments. percent as it tries to offset that country’s digital tax hike. Meanwhile, Google is slapping a 2 percent fee on ads in the U.K.

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MARCH 3, 2016

With tax season upon our furrowed brows, a cursory view of this list may lead one to think everyone is doing taxes on his phone. The Internal Revenue Service’s own IRS2Go and Intuit, Inc.’s ’s TurboTax apps both joined the ranks of the Top Ten for iOS users, pushing out GEICO Mobile and Read More.

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MARCH 15, 2018

New rules loom in the European Union for tech giants like Apple , Amazon and Google, Reuters reported. As has been noted, tech companies have become more highly regulated in Europe, as regulators focus on user data, tax payments and other business processes.

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