It’s getting more expensive for foreign artists to play live in China, thanks to new tax regulations on overseas performers and ticket sales. That’s bad news at a time when […]
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France to levy new tax on ‘internet giants’
France is becoming the first European country to introduce a tax on large, multi-national internet companies. Under a bill announced yesterday, digital companies will have to pay the new tax […]
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Spotify CEO joins protest against EU digital-revenues tax
It’s not just Article 13 and new copyright legislation causing controversy within the European Union. The EU could also be in line for a new law involving a 3% tax […]
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Spotify aims its guns at Apple’s 30% App Store tax
The fact that Apple takes a 30% cut of all in-app purchases made within iOS apps has been a sore point with streaming music services for some time. That’s even […]
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France reportedly considering ‘Google tax’ to help creative industries
Its three-strikes law may have been delayed, but a report presented to the French government is barking up another tree entirely in an effort to compensate the creative industries hardest hit by the shift to digital.
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Guy Hands scrutinised as Guernsey ”tax exile”
EMI boss Guy Hands is preparing to move into his new Guernsey offices, having switched his main place of work and residence from the mainland to swerve the new 50 per cent income tax rate.
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Kiwi shadow minister suggests broadband copyright tax
Clare Curran, New Zealand’s shadow minister for information and communications technology, has suggested “introducing a licensing fee attached to internet service provider (ISP) connections” to battle online piracy.