18% VAT and 2% income tax on electronic services extended to foreign providers from July 2022 Tanzania has this month, July 2022, extended VAT charging obligations to providers and facilitating marketplaces for digital services to local consumers. This also includes potential 2% income tax liabilities.
Foreign providers of electronic services given VAT registration threshold Kenya has introduced a VAT registration threshold for non-resident providers of digital services to Kenyan consumers. This is KES 5 million (approx €41,700) per annum of turnover. This is the same level as for resident business.
Draft Bill to impose VAT on nonresident digital or electronic service providers and marketplace platforms reintroduced following elections A stalled Bill (House Bill 372) to extend Value Added Tax to resident and non-resident providers and marketplaces of digital services has been reintroduced. This follows the
Draft Bill to impose VAT on nonresident digital or electronic service providers and marketplace platforms to be reintroduced following elections The new government of President-elect Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr is expected to push through a stalled Bill to impose 12% on non-resident digital service providers
New Zealand’s Inland Revenue Department introduced its 15% Goods and Services Tax on digital or electronic services provided by non-residents to consumers from 1 October 2016. There is a GST registration threshold of NZD 60,000 per annum, and there is no requirement to appoint a
NFT classified as digital service and liable to 21% VAT Agencia Estatal de Administración Tributaria, AEAT, has ruled that the supply of Non-fungible token is to be regarded as the supply of an electronic service and subject to the standard rate of 21% The ruling was provided
Place of supply rules change for income from B2C online live conferences, training, concerts The EU is to update the Value Added Tax rules for determining in which country VAT is due – ‘place of supply’ – on entrance fees for virtual events. Member states
List of VAT compliance foreign providers of digital services grows to 154 The Mexican Servicio de Administración Tributaria, SAT tax authorities has published an extended list of non-resident digital or electronic service providers who have registered to charge Value Added Tax. Mexican VAT on digital
1% increase on higher VAT rate from May 2022 on communications services Belarus is to raise the higher Value Added Tax rate applied on electronic communications and mobile services. From 1 May 2022, the rate will rise from 25% to 26%. The standard VAT rate
Ministry of Finance launches new non-resident VAT portal The Ministry of Finance launched in March 2022 a new English-language online tax portal for foreign providers of digital services to Vietnamese consumers. The ‘General Department of Taxation of Vietnam for Foreign Providers’ portal will enable foreign
