France issues digital service tax notices to big tech

In a statement, France’s Finance Ministry said, it has sent out notices to big tech companies to pay digital service tax as planned earlier. Earlier France had suspended collection of the digital service tax, since negotiations were underway at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on an overhaul of international tax rules. The…

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development readies launch of global digital tax readies

France has accused the United States of trying to undermine international negotiations on updating the cross-border taxation regime; Paris has urged the EU to prepare for an EU tax as a fallback option if negotiations fails. Nearly 140 countries are negotiating the first major rewrite of the international tax framework to account for the rise…

Trump Administration in talks with chipmakers on building semiconductor factories in the U.S.

May 10, 2020 – On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported, the Trump’s administration is holding talks with semiconductor companies on building chip factories in the United States. As per the WSJ report, which cites sources familiar with the matter at hand, the Trump administration is in talks with Intel Corp and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing…

France aiming to introduce digital taxes for big internet firms by December 2018

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire is pushing for the deal so as to retain earnings of large tech companies who use clever strategies and tax loopholes to evade taxes. On Monday, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire stated, the European Union plans on introducing digital taxes for large internet firms such as Google and…

China’s Ministry of Finance pulls up Xiaomi over accounting errors

The development piles up more investor pressure on Xiaomi’s stock, which is already down by 30% since its July 2018 IPO. On Tuesday, Chinese authorities disclosed, smartphone maker Xioami Corp had committed accounting errors. With the news reaching the market, Xioami’s Hong Kong-listed shares turned south midst a wider sell-off of China tech stocks. In…

Trump’s tax law takes a $13.8 billion bite from Microsoft Corp’s 4th quarter revenues

The growth in Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service is one of the reasons why the tech giant’s shares have risen by nearly 50% in the last 12 months. Despite Microsoft Corp’s quarterly revenues beating Wall Street’s forecast, recent changes in U.S. tax law took a one-time bite of $13.8 billion from its earnings. Boosted by…