Russian authorities may start trying to extract more tax from foreign tech firms such as Google and Apple, according to a report by Vedomosti. There appear to be a couple elements… Read more »
Apps from Uber and Airbnb to TaskRabbit and Instacart have jumpstarted the so-called “sharing economy” in the U.S., but they’re also created a whole lot of self-employed on-demand drivers, landlords and… Read more »
Last year the European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into Amazon’s Luxembourg tax arrangements, which may be illegal. Amazon funnels its European revenues through a complex transfer pricing set-up in the… Read more »
Starting in January, new EU tax rules will force many businesses offering online services across the Union to take on a load of new administrative responsibilities. The changes have caused particular consternation… Read more »
Skype used Luxembourgish and Irish subsidiaries to avoid paying corporation tax for five years, according to a Guardian report. The newspaper, which analyzed confidential documents obtained by the International Consortium of… Read more »
Uber keeps getting disrupted by European laws. On top of those recent Dutch driver arrests, the U.S. quasi-taxi outfit has now been fined €100,000 ($128,000) in France for falsely marketing its… Read more »
As it has already done with Apple, the European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to see whether Amazon’s low-tax arrangements (in Luxembourg this time) are in fact illegal. Read more »
Back in June, the European Commission started sniffing around Apple’s tax arrangements in Ireland, to see whether the Irish government’s acceptance of the firm’s elaborate tax avoidance tricks amounted to unlawful… Read more »
In his Weekly Update, David Linthicum, the Gigaom Research curator for cloud, warns as ‘Governments take another hard look at taxing public clouds’. He looks at proposed regulations to capture tax revenue… Read more »
European authorities want to know if the Irish tax authorities’ deal with Apple unfairly advantages the company or a specific group of companies. If it does, it may constitute illegal state… Read more »