Mainland China places the Value Added Tax responsibilities for non-resident sourced digital or electronic onto the Chinese resident customer. This applies to both B2C and B2B. There is no facility for non-residents to register for VAT. Non-resident providers of digital services should consider the likelihood
Latvia enacts EU reduced VAT agreement on e-books and news 1 January 2022 The Baltic state of Latvia’s Parliament has agreed to cut the Value Added Tax rate on income from electronic books, newspapers and journals to 5% from the rate of 21%. This harmonises
The Israeli government has included proposals to levy VAT on non-resident providers of digital or electronic services to its consumers in its 2021/22 budget for 1 January 2022 at the earliest. The new ‘Arrangement Law’ would update the Israeli Income Tax Ordinance to reflect increased
South Korea is to implement on-demand transaction reporting from 1 July 2022 for non-resident suppliers of digital or electronic services. Korea first implemented VAT on digital services in July 2015. Non-residents registered for digital services are obliged to maintain transactional-level details for at least five
Angola implemented VAT on foreign service from 1 October 2019. However, there are no detailed rules related to digital or electronic services. A local Fiscal Representative is required to represent the taxpayer with the General Tax Administration The current VAT rate in Angola is 14%.
Taiwan implemented Value Added Tax obligations on non-resident providers and marketplaces for electronic or digital services from 1 May 2017. There is a NTD 480,000 VAT registration threshold for simplified registration, and no requirement to appoint a local Fiscal Representative. Taiwan imposes Government Uniform Invoices
Malaysia imposed its Service Tax on foreign-provided digital services from 1 January 2020. This includes providers and electronic platforms. There is a RM 500,000 Sales Tax registration threshold. Non-residents must charge this to both B2C and B2B transactions. There is no requirement to appoint a
There are currently no Brazilian consumption taxes on non-resident provided digital or electronic services. The Brazilian indirect tax system is highly complex, and overlapping, with many conflicted state, federal and municipal taxes. Follow VAT Calc’s global live VAT invoice transaction and e-invoice reporting tracker to see
Kenya continues with its DST despite OECD agreement for 2023 global corporate tax reforms The latest Kenyan Finance Act has limited the application of the 1.5% Digital Services Tax (DST) to non-resident digital marketplaces. DST came into effect on 1 January 2021. This is in
The West Indies Island state of the Bahamas imposed VAT obligations on non-resident providers and digital marketplaces for digital and electronic services to consumers from 1 December 2019. There is no special VAT registration process, and no requirement to appoint a local VAT Fiscal Representative.
