Americans for Tax Reform: Pledge Takers Can't Vote For Internet Tax Bill
While the Senate is likely to pass the Marketplace Fairness Act being rammed through the Senate past the red tape of committees and onto the floor for a vote later today or by the end of this week by...
View ArticleUK Chancellor George Osborne Calls Tax Incentives an 'Unfinished Story'
UK Chancellor George Osborne and Culture minister Ed Vaizey said today that the European Commission's investigation into proposed tax incentives for the video game industry that have a cultural...
View ArticleHarry Reid's Internet Tax Bill Easily Passes in the Senate
Democrats and Republicans in the Senate seem to agree that requiring online retailers to collect sales tax is a great idea. A bipartisan coalition from both parties easily passed the Marketplace...
View ArticleWWE's Kane Hates the Marketplace Fairness Act
Here's something you may not know: Glenn Jacobs, the man who plays the "Big Red Monster" Kane character on World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and a co-holder of the WWE World Tag Team Championships,...
View ArticleVice President Sees No Legal Hurdles in Enacting Sin Tax on Violent Media
Vice President Joe Biden thinks that it would be perfectly okay to tax violent video games. During a recent meeting to talk about strategy for enacting the president’s proposed gun legislation, Biden...
View ArticleStudy: Majority of Consumers Hate the Marketplace Fairness Act
If the Marketplace Fairness Act that was enthusiastically passed in the Senate earlier this month were to somehow end up becoming the law of the land (through some sort of divine intervention in the...
View ArticleMissouri Video Game Sin Tax Bill Quietly Withdrawn
You may recall that back in January, Missouri State Rep. Diane Franklin (R-Camdenton) put forth a bill to levy a one percent sin tax on "violent video games." Apparently not realizing that she lived in...
View ArticleNational Governors Association Promotes Marketplace Fairness Act
Yesterday governors, legislators, congressional leaders, technology companies and small business owners held a meeting to promote the Senate's recently passed Marketplace Fairness Act legislation,...
View ArticleTIGA Urges EU Commission Decision on UK Games Tax Relief
The video games industry in the United Kingdom should have had tax breaks by now but the European Commission's questions on certain parts of the UK's proposals (mainly having to do with UK cultural...
View ArticleGrover Norquist and Lawmakers Hold Rally Against Marketplace Fairness Act
Earlier in the week while the National Governors Association and proponents of the Marketplace Fairness Act were hosting an event to encourage House members to approve the bill already passed the...
View ArticleUKIE 'Confident' that EU Commission Will Approve UK Tax Game Industry Relief
UKIE, the trade body that represents the video game industry in the UK, says that it feels "pretty confident" that the tax break proposal will be approved by the European Union and that the doubts...
View ArticleSony Australia in $53 Million Dispute with the Australian Taxation Office
Sony Australia is in a dispute with the Australian Taxation Office over $53 million AUD, which comes from five years of tax adjustments (back taxes owed and penalties) that the company believes are in...
View ArticleESA Praises Texas Film Commission's Expansion of Tax Incentives
The Entertaintment Software Association (ESA) issued a press release this week praising the Texas Film Commission for expanding its economic incentives to include "digital interactive media...
View ArticleMassachusetts Lawmaker Pushes for Video Game Tax Credits
Massachusetts State Rep. John Binienda (D-Worcester) is pushing for more tax incentives for the state's video games industry. It makes sense, given that Worcester is home to several video game...
View ArticlePoll: 'Likely Voters' Do Not Like the Marketplace Fairness Act
From the "we-could-have-told-you-that-without-a-poll department" comes this story from Politico about the public's opposition to Internet taxes. The polls - conducted for two separate conservative...
View ArticleHouse GOP Takes Steps Towards Internet Sales Tax
Despite opposition from fellow House members and a majority of constituents, some Republican lawmakers are pushing forward with Internet tax proposals as part of a comprehensive package on the topic...
View ArticleHigh Voltage Software Seeks Tax Incentives Amidst Illinois Legislature...
Buried in a story about a number of companies seeking incentives from the Illinois state legislature being held up by a veto by Governor Pat Quinn over a lack of pension reform, High Voltage Software's...
View ArticleFrance Reforms Tax Breaks for the Video Games Industry
According to a brief report in Tax News the French government is pushing to reform the country's video games tax credit (known as the CIJV). French Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti, Budget Minister...
View ArticleReport: Japan to Tax Digital Goods from Foreign Sources in 2015
If you live in Japan you already know that the government taxes games (and other physical goods) with a consumption tax that are imported from outside the country, but that tax will soon be applied to...
View ArticleRetail Industry Leaders Association to Push for Data Privacy Online Taxes in...
Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) said in a new report that it would push hard for the passage of an national Internet sales tax law and for better data privacy regulations this year. In its...
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