ecommerce tax in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.05.07
Round-Up Have these people never had their car serviced for a quoted £100, say, only to be hit by the hidden 'parts and labour', 'VAT', 'sales tax', 'added tax', 'mystery tax' and 'tax tax'? Philfing' is apparently "the name given to the increasingly... [25 May 2007]
Carrier pigeons disenfranchised by internet and email
Comment While the government should (grudgingly) be applauded for allocating this money (and indeed for giving broadband content providers tax breaks - see http://www.silicon.com/a48158 ), we're not quite sure what the RDAs are supposed to do with it. [12 Oct 2001]
Election 2001: Which party will do the most for Digital Britain?
Comment The Conservative ecommerce platform centres on its plans to revoke the largely unpopular IR35 tax reform. Most of the changes were needed to plug gaps in tax or criminal law, but time and time again Labour used a sledgehammer to crack a nut. [05 Jun 2001]
Brown's Budget: Share and share alike
Comment When silicon.com spoke to influential high-tech industry figures before the budget, they highlighted ecommerce tax breaks, the scrapping and simplification of certain taxes and improving national insurance charges on share options as areas of... [08 Mar 2001]
Brown must loosen tax shackles, says high-tech industry
Comment Unsurprisingly tax breaks are a recurring theme. He'd also welcome further tax breaks for start-ups, entrepreneurs and small businesses. This is a tax on format rather than product," Broich protested. [05 Mar 2001]
John Lamb's Week: Innovation, in its various forms
Comment The UK LSE-quoted company, which produces software that defines and activates services on IP networks and monitors their performance, turned in losses before tax of £8.6m in the nine months to last September. [23 Feb 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Mac OS X, virtual justice and MS C# versus Java
Comment Information services and tax collection are the other main services included within the budget. Virtual courts have been budgeted £43m and are part of the government's re-launched ambition to promote the UK as the leading ecommerce centre of the... [29 Jan 2001]
The who, what, when, where and why of e-envoys
Comment There is also an international role in trying to create a global consensus on internet problems, such as security and tax. Little is known about her, except that she was making pronouncements about ecommerce in banking as far back as 1996. [12 Sep 2000]
Back to basics: online tax in the UK
Comment The UK and other countries frequently enter into double tax treaties, which aim to protect companies from being taxed twice on the same profits, and to provide consistency for cross-border activity. Many double tax treaties contain a concept called... [12 Sep 2000]
Share and share alike: Why the Budget let down ecommerce
Comment With the Internet sector relying on share schemes to attract employees, many in the industry had built up hopes on tax breaks and an updated system. The Chancellor seems to have completely missed the point for ebusiness start-ups," said Steve... [23 Mar 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Novell's directory supremacy, CE's struggles, and the problem of Net taxation
Comment In this he is at odds with Governor Jim Gilmore of Virginia, the chairman of a congressional Internet tax advisory panel, who wants to prevent sales taxes on most ecommerce. Leavitt is proposing a plan for States to phase in an ecommerce tax system... [21 Nov 1999]
The information underclass: can Gordon Brown bring IT to the masses?
Comment Perri 6 suggested Brown might consider tax incentives and funding to encourage entrepreneurs to produce content for the whole spectrum of UK society. One of the specific measures he intends to introduce is a tax incentive scheme - first introduced... [19 Nov 1999]
Net profits: taxing the Internet
Comment This month the Inland Revenue (IR) and Her Majesty's Customs & Excise (C&E) are due to release their guidance paper on how the UK government should tax ecommerce. In the short term it may be painful to lose tax revenue, but if the UK can... [05 Nov 1999]
ANALYSIS: VAT - Virtual Added Tax?
Comment This would work as a huge database, which included details of all the discrepancies between national tax systems, and tracked ecommerce transactions accordingly. The main options are getting consumers to assess themselves - although the Swiss... [07 Oct 1998]
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