E-commerce: The global shift in taxation

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E-commerce: The global shift in taxation

Joe Stanley-Smith
October 26 2016
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Distance-selling regimes that impose a sales tax on digital goods and services are spreading across the globe. Joe Stanley-Smith looks at how these changes are being shepherded by the OECD.

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