Training on the taxation of the digital economy

The digitalisation of the economy has a major impact on our daily lives as well as on the taxation of business. Most of the current domestic and international tax rules find their origins in the traditional bricks and mortar economy. These outdated rules lead to a situation where many companies are hardly taxed in states where they do business on a large scale. At the same time, states do their best to come up with solutions that would lead to taxation. Often these solutions are included in their domestic tax legislations and it may be uncertain whether the states are entitled to apply these solutions when double taxation conventions are in place between the resident state of the enterprise and the state in which clients of these enterprises reside.

The training will bring together diverse stakeholders from tax administrations and Ministry of Finance to share experience and expectations from West Africa on the path to take towards formulating sound fiscal policy frameworks domestically to better tax the digital economy in order to prevent tax revenue leakages.

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