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International Taxation In An Era Of Digital Disruption: Analyzing The Current Debate, Itai Grinberg
International Taxation In An Era Of Digital Disruption: Analyzing The Current Debate, Itai Grinberg
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The “taxation of the digital economy” is currently at the top of the global international tax policymaking agenda. A core claim some European governments are advancing is that user data or user participation in the digital economy justifies a gross tax on digital receipts, new profit attribution criteria, or a special formulary apportionment factor in a future formulary regime targeted specifically at the “digital economy.” Just a couple years ago the OECD undertook an evaluation of whether the digital economy can (or should) be “ring-fenced” as part of the BEPS project, and concluded that it neither can be nor should …
The Digital Services Tax On The Verge Of Implementation, Wei Cui
The Digital Services Tax On The Verge Of Implementation, Wei Cui
All Faculty Publications
France enacted the digital services tax (DST) in 2019, and similar legislation is pending in the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, and other countries. The DST can be viewed as a tax on location-specific rent (LSR), and it arguably solves genuinely new problems in international taxation. The author briefly reviews this justification of the DST and further examines the DST design in light of three criticisms. The first criticism is that certain features of the DST render it similar to distortionary import tariffs. The second is that the DST would not be borne by digital platforms but would only be shifted …