German minister calls for Google to be broken upGermany’s culture minister Wolfram Weimer called for breaking up Google, accusing it of tax avoidance and failing society. His remarks foll...
18 Sep, 2025, 10.08 PM IST
Trump vows retaliation against countries with digital rules targeting US techDonald Trump vowed tariffs and export curbs on nations with digital taxes targeting US tech giants, singling out EU regulations on firms li...
26 Aug, 2025, 08.08 PM IST
Trump threatens more tariffs for countries with digital taxesSources said earlier that the Trump administration was considering imposing sanctions on European Union or member state officials responsib...
26 Aug, 2025, 01.05 PM IST
Trump says US tech cos not 'piggy banks' or 'doormats', threatens more tariffs on nations with digital taxesUS President Donald Trump has warned that countries with digital services taxes will face steep tariffs and curbs on advanced technology ex...
26 Aug, 2025, 09.35 AM IST
Amazon 'applauds' Canada's scrapping of tech taxAmazon said Tuesday it "applauds" Canada's decision to scrap its digital services tax in order to salvage trade talks with the United State...
01 Jul, 2025, 08.07 PM IST
Tax bill contains 'sledgehammer' for Trump to retaliate against foreign digital taxesRepublicans are pushing back against the global minimum tax with a provision in a sweeping tax bill that allows the U.S. to retaliate again...
30 May, 2025, 11.38 PM IST
Tax bill contains 'sledgehammer' for Trump to retaliate against foreign digital taxesA provision in a tax bill under consideration in Congress would grant President Trump the power to retaliate against countries imposing dig...
30 May, 2025, 04.09 PM IST
Taxes on super rich and tech giants stall under TrumpGlobal tax reform plans targeting billionaires and multinational corporations face significant setbacks, particularly with the United State...
20 Apr, 2025, 09.26 AM IST
Italy agrees with US to oppose 'discriminatory' tech taxesEuropean levies aimed at hitting dominant U.S. tech giants such as Alphabet's Google, Meta's Facebook , Apple and Amazon have been a longst...
19 Apr, 2025, 07.27 AM IST
Tit-for-tat tariffs looming, EU mulls concessions for USEuropean Union officials were told at meetings this week in Washington that there was no way to avoid new auto and so-called reciprocal tar...
29 Mar, 2025, 12.27 AM IST
Italy extends big tech tax probe to Musk's X social networkWhile the value-added tax claim is a trifling sum for X, a company that generated $3.4 billion in revenue in 2023, the case is significant ...
25 Feb, 2025, 10.00 PM IST
Effective regulation, not overenthusiasticOnline commercial activity is growing at twice the rate of the overall economy and needs a policy environment to maintain its momentum.
06 Apr, 2022, 11.12 PM IST
Biden reinvigorates tariff war against India with retaliation against digital taxThe US Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced on June 2 the plan for the 25 per cent increase in the tariffs on 26 items from India, ...
07 Jun, 2021, 02.45 PM IST
Debate heats up over how countries tax Big Tech companiesThere's a mid-year deadline for talks on a global deal that aims to defuse trade disputes with France and other countries that are imposing...
27 Jan, 2021, 06.18 PM IST
2% equalisation levy on non-resident e-commerce cos non-discriminatory: India to USIn a six-page written submission to the United States Trade Representative (USTR), India said the levy is applicable only for companies wit...
17 Jul, 2020, 09.33 PM IST
France says US pulling back on digital tax dealThe OECD is overseeing negotiations among 134 countries to forge a system to make firms pay taxes in the countries they operate, amid growi...
02 Dec, 2019, 05.53 PM IST
Discriminatory US visa fee may have $400 million annual impact: NasscomNasscom asserted that the Indian IT industry should not be "repeatedly targeted as a revenue source to fund unrelated programmes".
18 Dec, 2015, 01.22 AM IST