2025 Finance Act now effective 1 Jan 2025 levying 19% VAT on electronic services The West African country of Republic of Niger’s Parliament, National Assembly, has approved the Government’s 2025 budget, which includes imposing VAT on the sale of digital services to consumers. This is
Foreign providers of electronic or digital B2B and B2C VAT obligations Zimbabwe imposed Value Added Tax on digital and broadcast services provided by non-resident providers or marketplaces to its consumers and businesses from 1 January 2020. This requires a VAT registration once over the VAT
Pillar 2 of ViDA, ride & accommodation platforms becoming deemed supplier Voluntary from 1 July 2028; mandatory 1 January 2030 As part of the EU VAT in the Digital Age reforms, ride and accommodation marketplaces / digital platforms will take on the deemed supplier for
President drops 2025 tax reform bill introducing 18% VAT on non-resident providers of e-services The Caribbean island state of Dominican Republic has withdrawn plans to implement VAT liabilities for foreign providers of digital services for local consumers. The President was unable to gather enough political
President considering extending 19% VAT obligations to ride, gig and betting digital platforms Columbia’s proposed 2025 budget may be modified to include an extension of VAT collection obligations to digital platforms and marketplaces. This would include gig economy (e.g. Uber) and accommodation sharing (e.g. Airbnb).
Finance Ministry to extend VAT collections to app stores 1st April 2025 The Japanese National Tax Agency has published Frequently Asked Questions to support the imposition of the deemed supplier Consumption Tax obligations on digital platforms for digital services. This comes into effect on 1
Fiscal representatives register and report VAT on behalf of foreign providers Madagascar imposed its Value Added Tax on digital or electronic services (and goods) sales to consumers by foreign providers via local fiscal representatives. Where a non-resident provider B2B or B2B digital services, it
The West African country of the Republic of Guinea imposed Value Added Tax on foreign providers of digital or electronic services from 2016, further updated in January 2022. There is no VAT registration threshold. A Tax Representative is required. For B2B transactions, nil-rating reverse charge
2024 Budget announces plan to implement VAT collections on foreign providers of digital services Botswana’s 2024 Budget has brought into the VAT net the provision of digital services by non-resident providers to local consumers. To implementation date has been provided yet. Non-resident businesses looking to
