This paper addresses adverse consequences of the European Union definition of a "service", especially regarding the Digital Single Market Strategy. After an introduction, the second section analyses through legal texts, its somewhat outdated view, where a "service" covers all intangible items....

Australia has received considerable attention as a result of its unilateral actions to discourage multinational profit shifting. Those actions include the 2015 enactment of the Multinational Anti-Avoidance Law and the Australian Treasury's May 2016 proposal for a diverted profits tax. This...

This paper studies the effect of sales tax changes on internet and catalog sales. We collect sales data from a retailer that sells its products through its internet and catalog channels. We analyze the retailer's sales before and after a major tax cut in one of the largest metropolitan areas in...

By measuring base erosion only through certain related party outbound payments, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act misses much of the profit shifting that has created the more than $2.6 trillion of overseas untaxed profits. This article shows how the base erosion provisions in the legislation could be...

Although we live in an age in which everything and everyone is ‘online connected', countries' profit taxation systems are still based on an economic reality of around a century ago. And that creates tension. The problems this tension causes are particularly evident in the case of profits...

The advent of the Internet in the 1980’s revolutionized the world of computers, information technology and communication. The Internet, with its international broadcasting capabilities, is an instrument for broadcasting information and a medium for partnership and interaction between persons...

The issues and challenges in taxation in the digital economy stem from the complex and multifaceted nature of the digital economy. Reaching a common understanding and measurement of its size and impact is critical in devising a tax regime for the digital economy. In APEC Secretariat (2019), the...

Since the launch of the iTunes Music Store in the US in 2003 and in much of Europe in the following years, music trade has shifted rapidly from physical to digital products, raising the availability of products in different countries. Despite substantial growth in availability, the available...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Digital Economy and International Business, an Historical Perspective -- Chapter 3. Internationalization, Digitalization, and Exponential Growth -- Chapter 4. Platforms and International Business -- Chapter 5. Artificial Intelligence and International...