There are no customs on the internet.
So if you buy something with digital delivery abroad (pay euro's in your case), you do not pay any local tax.
If a business is located within an EU member state and supplies e-services to an individual who is not VAT registered in another EU member state then VAT rules of the state where the business is located apply. If the business supplies e-services to a VAT-registered individual in another state then the business is not obliged to pay VAT in its state and thus the individual must pay VAT in its state. If the business supplies e-services to a VAT-registered individual yet the individual receives the e-services in a state where neither the business nor the individual has their establishment then the business is obliged to register for VAT in the state where the e-services are delivered to. The 2015 EU VAT legislation requires two non-conflicting pieces of evidence to be produced so as to determine what VAT rate should be applied to these digital goods sales.
How are they going to police a copy of CodeVision AVR that I can buy from Romania?
I'm already paying VAT on my Kindle ebooks from Amazon (and other things I'm sure), so this isn't completely new.
I've highlighted the issues. Please suggest how those should be enforced.
With physical items they can intercept the package. With digital products, this is a whole lot more difficult. That is why I said that there are no customs on the internet.
What the government should be doing to forgetting the end-user's tax on software, but instead forcing bad corporate citizens like like Microsoft, Apple and Google to pay their fair share of COMPANY TAX, rather than openly ripping us all off by funnelling money through Ireland, Singapore or Bermuda.
What the government should be doing to forgetting the end-user's tax on software, but instead forcing bad corporate citizens like like Microsoft, Apple and Google to pay their fair share of COMPANY TAX, rather than openly ripping us all off by funnelling money through Ireland, Singapore or Bermuda.
While they are at it, get churches to pay their tax just like every other profit making business. $30BN a year on offer right there.
What the government should be doing to forgetting the end-user's tax on software, but instead forcing bad corporate citizens like like Microsoft, Apple and Google to pay their fair share of COMPANY TAX, rather than openly ripping us all off by funnelling money through Ireland, Singapore or Bermuda.
While they are at it, get churches to pay their tax just like every other profit making business. $30BN a year on offer right there.
Churches should not be profit making businesses.
How are they going to police a copy of CodeVision AVR that I can buy from Romania?
They can't.
What the government should be doing to forgetting the end-user's tax on software, but instead forcing bad corporate citizens like like Microsoft, Apple and Google to pay their fair share of COMPANY TAX, rather than openly ripping us all off by funnelling money through Ireland, Singapore or Bermuda.
While they are at it, get churches to pay their tax just like every other profit making business. $30BN a year on offer right there.$30BN is questionable.
If the churches handed over the huge amount of good social services they perform (eg: foodbank, counseling, charity, overseas aid etc) back to their governments, taxes for all will go up rather significantly. Governments need churches.
Churches should not be profit making businesses. Most corner churches struggle to balance their books and don't own massive amounts of priceless real estate, so the tax they would have to pay would be negligible. Furthermore, the salaries of clergy and administration people is fully taxed like the rest of us.
Maybe they should tax the mega-churches that offer "wealth and prosperity" if the followers "plant a seed" (Give 100-1000$)
However the vast majority of church ministers are good, faithful and honest people.
It would be unjust to tax churches in general and on the whole, society would suffer for it.
Exactly the same thing will happen, people will order their software using a US server or some other country where there is no sales tax. Also how long before the software is given away free and you pay for a 1 year support agreement. Clearly there is no digital download being sold so therefore no tax. It has taken me 30 seconds to work out how to avoid such a tax, surely the accountants whose job it is to reduce tax liabilities will find other ways.
We may have fools at the helm, but at least the people now know what metadata is.
Via this informative graphic.
source:http://www.budget.gov.au/2015-16/content/overview/html/overview-19.htm
We may have fools at the helm, but at least the people now know what metadata is.
Via this informative graphic.
source:http://www.budget.gov.au/2015-16/content/overview/html/overview-19.htm
I didn't quite get that.
Via this informative graphic.
QuoteVia this informative graphic.
Sorry, I was being sarcastic.
Our politicians (and graphic artists) don't really understand what metadata is.
Yet they are creating legislation for it and funding its collection.
This money is for our inept secret services who are probably going to use use the money and legislation to collect any data they want.