Tag: digital tax

‘Cash-strapped’ PH gov’t moves to impose digital tax amid pandemic

Ann Domingo June 22, 2020

Badly needing revenues to arrest the slide of the local economy, the government is moving to introduce tax on the digital economy, particularly on video-streaming companies and large online sellers.

Gov’t tax on online sellers ill-timed and insensitive, says solon

Newsbytes.PH June 14, 2020

Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian has asked the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to defer its plan to impose taxes on small-time online sellers amid the Covid-19 pandemic, saying that the proposed taxation at the height of the economic and health crisis is ill-timed and insensitive.