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Alphabet’s Google, Facebook, and Netflix are in the tax crosshairs again - this time in Turkey.

Axar.az reports citing The National that the country’s governing party has pulled together a draft law, seen by Bloomberg, that seeks to impose levies on revenues generated in Turkey by local and international digital services companies, without specifically naming the US giants.

The move would mirror efforts in other countries, like France and the UK, to develop tax policies that can better account for operations of digital and virtual companies that have seen exponential growth as their services have become ubiquitous.

“Developments in technology allow international digital services companies to have commercial operations in a country without a physical presence there,” the draft bill said. “The draft aims to tax earnings from such services by companies, considering practices in other countries.”

Presented to parliament by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party, or Ak Party, the potential law envisages a 7.5 per cent tax on companies that have more than €750 million ($834m) globally in annual revenues, or more than 20 million liras ($3.5m) in Turkey from services with audio, visual and voice content, including games, music and videos on mobile devices and personal computers.

Turkey has the world’s ninth-biggest number of Facebook users in the world, according to Statista.com.

Netflix, which has more than 1.5 million users in Turkey, applied in September for a license to operate in the country in line with new digital regulations. The company declined to comment on the potential law. Representatives of Google’s local operations didn’t immediately respond to calls seeking comments.

Separately, the draft bill also has rulings on foreign currency sales taxation, income tax, and accommodation tax.

Date
2019.10.28 / 13:14
Author
Axar.az
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