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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12128

31 October 2018
Contents Publication in full By article 11 / 32
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / Taxation
United Kingdom boldly takes legislative step towards taxing the digital sector by 2020
Brussels, 30/10/2018 (Agence Europe)

With the United Kingdom preparing to leave the European Union, the country has just taken the bold legislative step of a tax on digital services, thereby stealing a march on the other member states of the EU, which are struggling to agree on the principle of the European tax (see other article), and on the OECD countries.

The British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, on Monday 29 October announced the creation of a tax targeting the Internet giants, in his budgetary declaration at...

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