{"id":2641,"date":"2016-05-02T10:55:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T08:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2020-04-20T10:56:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T08:56:01","slug":"article-19-the-tax-challenges-of-the-digital-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/articles-publications\/article-19-the-tax-challenges-of-the-digital-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Article 19 &#8211; The Tax Challenges of the Digital Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Tackling BEPS in the digital economy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In our 19<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;article in a series of articles on the tax challenges of the digital economy, we shall be providing you hereunder with a brief overview on measures that will address BEPS issues in the area of consumption taxes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The digitization of the economy has facilitated the ability of businesses to acquire a wide range of services and intangibles from suppliers around the world and to structure their operations in a truly global manner.&nbsp; These developments have allowed businesses to avoid and minimize the amount of unrecoverable vat that they pay on their inputs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The implementation of Guidelines 2 and 4 of the OECD\u2019s International VAT\/GST Guidelines on the place of taxation for business-to-business (B2B) supplies of services and intangibles will minimise BEPS opportunities for supplies of remotely delivered services and intangibles made to exempt businesses, including exempt entities that operate through establishments in multiple jurisdictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guideline 2 recommends that the taxing rights on cross border supplies of services and intangibles between businesses be allocated to the jurisdiction where the customer has located its business establishment and that business customers will be required to self-assess VAT on remotely delivered services or intangibles acquired from foreign suppliers according to the rules of the jurisdiction in which they are located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guideline 4 provides that when a supply is made to a business that is established in more than one jurisdiction, taxation should accrue to the jurisdiction where the customer\u2019s establishment using the service or intangible is located.&nbsp; These Guidelines are set out to achieve the desired result in practice, which is the allocation of the right to levy VAT on B2B services and intangibles to the jurisdiction where these services are used for business purposes, irrespective of how the supply and the acquisition of these services were structured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In our next article, we shall be focusing our attention on the broader direct tax challenges raised by the digital economy and the options to address them.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tackling BEPS in the digital economy In our 19th&nbsp;article in a series of articles on the tax challenges of the digital economy, we shall be providing you hereunder with a brief overview on measures that will address BEPS issues in the area of consumption taxes. The digitization of the economy has facilitated the ability of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":10},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}