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India has officially eliminated the controversial 'Google Tax,' marking a significant shift in digital taxation policies. But ...

Nirmala Sitharaman stated that once the new Income Tax Bill is passed, digital records will also be considered in assessments ...

Union FM Nirmala Sitharaman has defended the provisions of the new Income Tax Bill, 2025 in Parliament, highlighting the importance of digital surveillance in fighting against financial frauds ...

India’s move to withdraw its ‘Google tax’ is probably an attempt to soften US tariff blows. But our principled advocacy of fairly split taxes on multinational corporations must not flag.

The tax, affecting companies like Google and Amazon, had generated significant revenue but drew criticism from the US. The decision is seen as a step towards strengthening trade relations.

The tax is called an equalization levy, and since its introduction in 2016 has seen non-resident companies required to pay 6 percent of earnings derived from digital advertising. The measure was ...

Setting context: Introduced in the Finance Act of 2016, the equalisation levy—commonly known as the Google tax—applies to annual payments ... Also Read: From CBDC, UPI ATM to Payments SRO: RBI lays ...

What Is Equalisation Levy? Also colloquially referred to as Google Tax, equalisation levy was introduced by the Indian government in 2016 as a way to tax payments made by Indian businesses to ...

Govt to abolish ‘Google tax’ amid Trump’s tariff threat The Finance Act, 2020, had extended the scope of this levy to e-commerce transactions at a rate of 2 per cent. However, that was ...

The Equalisation Levy know as 'Google Tax' was introduced in 2016 to tax payments made by Indian businesses to foreign companies for digital advertising services. Listen to Story India to scrap 6% ...