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Budget 2021-22 proposal on digital tax likely to land up in court

Foreign players in a fix as they will now come under levy's ambit

India plays an important role in hunt for talent in digital age: Amazon CTO

Vogels says India has tremendous engineers, innovators and a great entrepreneurial spirit.

China regulator says should consider digital data tax for tech firms

"Some third-party platform-like enterprises hold a large amount of users data, just like holding precious mineral mines," science and technology supervision bureau chief said

Our algorithmic planet

Book review of Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World

Delhi Assembly vs Facebook: Is the social media giant answerable to states?

Facebook has argued that the Delhi Assembly can't summon a non-member to appear before it, since 'police and 'public order' do not fall within its ambit

Riding a positive wave, digital firms may see V-shaped ad recovery in H2

"It is significant that no other medium, barring digital, will achieve growth in 2020," says Sam Balsara, CMD, Madison World

Google working on tools to improve user privacy in digital advertising

Google said its vision is for a "thriving internet where people around the world can continue to access ad-supported content, while also feeling confident that their data is protected"

'Not clear at all': Google tax sends foreign firms looking for answers

There are other unanswered questions such as are foreign banks with users in India liable to pay the tax, called equalisation levy, for charges levied on online transactions?

Google vs Facebook: India is set to be their next big battleground

Both the companies are looking at partnerships to expand their India business

Google commits $10-billion investment to expedite digitisation in India

Separately, Pichai also interacted with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday through videoconferencing.

Digital MNCs likely to miss July 7 deadline for paying Google tax

The development indicates that government has not heeded to calls for deferment of the tax by the industry

Decoding India's stand on digital tax

Traditional international tax law principles fail to account for the developments in technology that allow businesses to cater to market jurisdictions remotely

India, European nations may soon tax digital firms as US upends global plan

United States pulled out of global talks to put in place a multilateral instrument to bring these companies in the tax net.

France to apply digital tax whether US returns to negotiations or not

Nearly 140 countries have been negotiating the first rewrite of international tax rules in a generation

OECD weaves net to stop Google, Facebook and Netflix from shifting profit

A public consultation meeting on the GloBE proposal will be held on December 9.

The theory of the 'timepass' nation

There is such demand for content, even old movies and television shows are being repurposed for the smart phone

Taxing digital giants: India wants to wait until 2020 for a global solution

DTC panel makes no sweeping suggestion on it; any possible govt action only in 2020

Digital transformation is not just another project for us: Oracle's Gaonkar

Technology decisions are no longer an exclusive domain for the IT function and the whole C-suite is deeply involved, says Guruprasad Gaonkar

The challenges of taxing global digital companies like Google and Facebook

Frustrated by futile efforts to tax digital companies and in fear that they may cede their tax base, countries began adopting measures unilaterally