by Mike Lewis | Jun 5, 2025
The UK is weighing the future of its Digital Services Tax (DST), under pressure from US trade threats. From the White House to the tech sector, the DST has been described as a discriminatory ‘tariff’ almost entirely targeting large US internet companies. No-one seems...
by Alex Dunnagan | Oct 7, 2021
New analysis from TaxWatch reveals how the US Government is set to be the big winner from increases in taxes on big tech arising from the global tax negotiations currently underway under the auspices of the G20/OECD. In our latest research, we have analysed the gains...
by Alex Dunnagan | Jul 12, 2021
African countries are missing out on significant tax revenues because multinational tech giants are failing to collect and pay VAT on services, according to new research. A new report published by TaxWatch finds that Microsoft, Google and Facebook are not collecting...
by Alex Dunnagan | Jul 12, 2021
12th July 2021 This report is available as a PDF here. Summary Multi-national tech giants such as Facebook, Google, and Microsoft (operating out of their Irish subsidiaries) are failing to collect VAT on sales they make in Africa – even in countries where they have...
by Alex Dunnagan | Jun 8, 2021
TaxWatch analysis shows that package agreed at the G7 would lead to a tax cut for tech companies subject to the Digital Services Tax On Saturday 5th June G7 finance ministers announced an agreement on changing the tax rules for global multinational companies. The deal...
