{"id":183605,"date":"2022-05-10T20:53:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T15:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=183605"},"modified":"2022-05-10T20:53:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T15:23:46","slug":"taxing-digital-companies-un-tax-panel-working-on-new-set-of-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/taxing-digital-companies-un-tax-panel-working-on-new-set-of-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxing digital companies: UN tax panel working on new set of rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The United Nations(UN\u2019s) tax committee is developing a set of rules to tax <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">digital services<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in a way that is distinct from global tax deals for large multinationals including Google, Facebook, Netflix and Microsoft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India is also a part of this UN Tax committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the rules the UN is developing to tax digital services?<\/b><\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_183636\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-183636\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-183636 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1652119953-3572.jpg?resize=400%2C391&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"UN Tax committee\" width=\"400\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1652119953-3572.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1652119953-3572.jpg?resize=300%2C293&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-183636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Business Standard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The UN Tax Committee has approved a final draft to add Article 12B in the UN model tax convention in order to include the taxation of \u201cautomated digital services(ADS)\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Article 12B does not require any particular threshold, such as a permanent establishment, a fixed base, or a minimum period of presence in a contracting state as a condition for taxing income from automated digital services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It allows market jurisdictions to levy a withholding tax on the gross amount of digital services income. This means that it gives additional taxing rights to countries where an automated digital service provider\u2019s customers are located.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It includes articles that <strong>1)<\/strong> prevent certain forms of tax discrimination, <strong>2)<\/strong> provide for the exchange of tax information and assistance in tax collection between the treaty partners, <strong>3)<\/strong> allow the treaty partners to consult together through the Mutual Agreement Procedure, <strong>4)<\/strong> to resolve disputes or address doubts concerning the treaty and <strong>5)<\/strong> address certain types of treaty abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/oecd-g20-inclusive-framework-tax-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OECD Global Tax deal<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>How are these UN Tax rules different from the OECD Global Tax deal?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Firstly,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it allows taxing small to mid-sized firms, regardless of their business size and threshold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Secondly<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it is comparatively simple and can be applied to MNCs not covered by Pillar one of OECD. This will result in fair distribution of taxing rights and countries will be more comfortable giving up unilateral measures like equalization levy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cTaxing digital companies: UN tax panel working on new set of rules\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Business Standard<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on<\/span> <b>10th May 2022<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The United Nations(UN\u2019s) tax committee is developing a set of rules to tax digital services in a way that is distinct from global tax deals for large multinationals including Google, Facebook, Netflix and Microsoft. Note: India is also a part of this UN Tax committee. What are the rules the UN&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/taxing-digital-companies-un-tax-panel-working-on-new-set-of-rules\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taxing digital companies: UN tax panel working on new set of rules<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[10503],"class_list":["post-183605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704836663},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}