Arbeitspapier

Taxing Direct Sales of Digital Services: A Plea for Regulated and Internationally Coordinated Profit Splitting

The employment of capital is rival in nature. Small countries do not benefit from taxing its employment. By contrast, the use of digital services is non-rival and small countries do benefit from taxing expenditures on such services. In fact, some countries have already decided to tax digital activities. If such practice spreads, the development of digital services is negatively affected. It is argued that countries exporting digital services have reason to respond by promoting an international tax regime in which the right of taxing the profit earned on the direct sales of digital services is split between the countries involved.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 7017

Classification
Wirtschaft
Business Taxes and Subsidies including sales and value-added (VAT)
Accounting and Auditing: Government Policy and Regulation
Subject
taxing digital services
import tax
tax exemption
profit splitting
Shapley value

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Richter, Wolfram F.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(where)
Munich
(when)
2018

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Richter, Wolfram F.
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Time of origin

  • 2018

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