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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]
European ecommerce tax laws to be extended
News The European Commission wants to extend the existing rules about VAT on European ecommerce transactions. He also called on the EU Council to adopt the two proposals which would give permanent effect to the measures in the ecommerce VAT directive as... [18 May 2006]
Ecommerce tax faces rough ride
News The proposal to force non-EU companies to add VAT on all goods purchased online will be tough to enforce, a leading lawyer has stated. Organisations based outside the European Union will be expected to put VAT charges on goods purchased digitally... [15 Feb 2002]
US e-tailers hit by European ecommerce tax
News Non-EU online suppliers will have to register with a VAT organisation in the EU country of their choice and charge each consumer a tax rate specific to the consumer's own country. European web users will soon have to pay tax on goods bought online... [12 Feb 2002]
IR35 is driving a brain drain contractors claim
News But it's not just the tax climate which appears to attracting IT workers. Ecommerce minister Patricia Hewitt's comments on IR35 this week have got a few silicon.com readers a little hot under the collar. [31 May 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. Peter Cochrane, former chief technologist at BT and co-founder of ConceptLabs, would like to see the tax system streamlined. Tax, in general, is a hot topic for UK business. [05 Mar 2001]
Budget 2001: What the IT industry really, really wants
News But while industry campaigners admit they are unlikely to pressure the government into giving up ecommerce tax, they hope for more success with employee share schemes. This is a tax on format rather than product," Broich said, "VAT should be... [02 Mar 2001]
EC backs e-invoice law
News It is hoped this will increase speed of invoicing, lower cost and make it easier for tax authorities to track and fight fraud. At present, 15 different sets of legislation govern electronic invoicing and several member states still require parallel... [21 Nov 2000]
EC makes case for Web regulation
News Ecommerce is just one driver to the simplification of the tax scheme which, Kerrigan said was an "old patchwork of measures put together on an ad hoc basis". But in other countries it is enforced, which gives rise certain countries undercutting... [20 Jun 2000]
UK Chancellor sets out e-government roadmap for SMEs
News The first scheme will involve the creation of an "e-tax adviser" to allow SMEs to register online with the Inland Revenue, Customs and Excise and for VAT. Brown said he would reform tax regimes to help SMEs and strive for lower Internet costs. [06 Mar 2000]
HM Customs closes in on ecommerce tax system
News He is investigating technological solutions that could distribute VAT across Europe at different rates, from a single European registry. A single European VAT registry would normally require member states to harmonise their VAT rates, which most... [16 Dec 1999]
Lobby group pushes for ecommerce tax breakthrough
News The EeTG's business leaders are sure they can convince member states to unify their VAT tax collection, in the name of efficient ecommerce. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has leapt into the fray on behalf of the European E-business Tax Group (EeTG... [15 Dec 1999]
WTO ministers fail to agree on Internet taxation
News In June, the EC published its own paper on Internet taxation establishing the principle of transferring existing sales tax onto the Internet with as few changes as possible. American companies won't necessarily want to be registered for tax in Europe. [05 Dec 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]
