Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/207254 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 7863
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The use of digital services is largely non-rival. This paper argues that vanishing marginal costs of supply change policy incentives. Small countries are incentivized to tax the import of digital services. In fact, various countries have already moved towards expanded source taxation of online business activities. If such practice spreads, the quality of digital services will be negatively affected. This paper argues that countries exporting digital services have reason to respond by promoting an international tax regime in which the profit earned on remote supplies of digital business services is split between the countries involved.
Subjects: 
digital services
remote supply
import tax
alleviating double taxation
profit splitting
JEL: 
H25
M48
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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