PBO proposes new tax on digital services

[B-1]

They are really on fire at the moment with ideas. Piggy bank must be pretty light at the moment.

 

[Moto Guzzi]

South Africans in general, as well as people in other similar parts of the world(Most) are going to become super sensitive to any smell of greed and corruption: My advice to the 3rd generation from now, the generation that will be forced into a correction, just to be able to live.
-Get a digital correction. It is hopelesly overvalued and bind monetary systems, it has evil abstract components.
-Get all Laws, Rules etc simplified. Get rid of Red Tape, its a hiding place for modern corruption.
-Get everything simplified.
-Minimise parasitic jobs.
-Individuals deserving to get rich, let it be that is not your problem
--They Produce things better, faster, cheaper, and the service or product works out of the box, and keep on working, and if you do have a problem its attended to no questions asked by staff that has knowledge and authority to make changes or take decissions, these frontrunners makes life possible and easy and a pleasure, and resources are saved.
--Fly by nights high on credit & greed can do a lot of damage, producing relative expensive shiny crap,waisting resources, waisting your money and time, prone to corruption, the negativity from this group is endless, recognise those early.
You cannot build a future from this ideology.

Why....Too simplify you need more thought, more intelligence, more common sense, more dissipline and the beauty of simplification is, Greed & Corruption cannot hide in simplified processes/area/enviroments, don't confuse this with education/educated.

 

[HavocXphere]

It'll be like herding lolcats but yeah sure give it a go

 

[Spectralwarrior]

This proposal makes no sense. All income falls under income tax, so to say that income from digital activities are not being taxed is just a lie.

Agree and making the 3 million who pay tax out of 56 million people as poor as the rest is not going to solve the country's problem. Oh wait - it will solve the problem of the few looters in the government for the next 2 years.

Oh and since just criticizing without offering any solution is not good - let me offer a few solutions to the country's problem:
1. Stop paying people to have babies. Check out Switzerland's population and then compare to that of Nigeria. Decide which country looks best and aim to have the same population.

2. Pay people to limit to two kids. Since we do not have Europe's infrastructure though maybe cut down more.

3. Teach the value of honesty right from toddlerhood. Like a complete cultural overhaul.

4. Focus on education - like essential subjects. Cut out Life Orientation and do extra maths in that time.

5. Just get rid of half of the government.

I can add more ideas...just let me know.

 

[DreamKing]

This proposal makes no sense. All income falls under income tax, so to say that income from digital activities are not being taxed is just a lie.

The PBO said South Africa could also generate additional revenue from customs duties on cross border digital economic activities.

customs duties ==>

in other words they want you to pay extra tax for importing / exporting any digital content as same as the physical one.

 

[ItherNiT]

As if the zar/usd exchange rate wasn't bad enough, they want me to pay more for my in game items

Why do they want to keep taxing the entertainment, why should digital goods fall under sin tax... does gov just want us to sit at home and look at the ceiling for entertainment?

 

[grok]

But they can and have taxed themselves into prosperity. They can't tax the nation into prosperity. This is why communism is so popular in the world because it's about enriching a few elites.

Prosperity?

prosperity
/prɒˈspɛrɪti/
noun
noun: prosperity

the state of being prosperous.
"a long period of peace and prosperity"

You mean temporary or short term gains, I wouldn't call making it while bankrupting the other 60 odd million citizens prosperity..

Besides, look how Zuma is skunking away in a bunker somewhere dodging the commissions exposing his shenanigans, exposed as the biggest fool alive, a Gupta tool having to keep the lie alive instead of growing old gracefully, in peace.

Why would anyone voluntarily vote for an elite to oppress them, suffering while living in luxury? Do you have to be that dumb to believe in communism? That you're going to be one of the lucky ones to benefit?

Our standards differ, that much is obvious.

 

[deweyzeph]

customs duties ==>

in other words they want you to pay extra tax for importing / exporting any digital content as same as the physical one.

Good luck to them with enforcing it. Custom duties on physical goods only work because your goods are literally held to ransom at the border until duties are paid. How the hell is that going to work with digital goods?

 

[daveza]

Won't be long till govt installs a little scale just above the water level in your toilet and starts a sewage tax per kilogram.

 

[RedViking]

They will rape us dry till we have nothing left.

 

[DreamKing]

Good luck to them with enforcing it. Custom duties on physical goods only work because your goods are literally held to ransom at the border until duties are paid. How the hell is that going to work with digital goods?

no idea.

 

[Milano]

Love it. Bring it. They don't seem to know how to explain this concept. Seems to be customs & excise tax on imported digital goods (non-physical) as they have already nailed VAT on those. Not like it needs to really be explained. Just keep bringing it and we'll pay it. We more taxes. No amount could be too much in return for nothing.

 

[Swa]

Agree and making the 3 million who pay tax out of 56 million people as poor as the rest is not going to solve the country's problem. Oh wait - it will solve the problem of the few looters in the government for the next 2 years.

Oh and since just criticizing without offering any solution is not good - let me offer a few solutions to the country's problem:
1. Stop paying people to have babies. Check out Switzerland's population and then compare to that of Nigeria. Decide which country looks best and aim to have the same population.

2. Pay people to limit to two kids. Since we do not have Europe's infrastructure though maybe cut down more.

3. Teach the value of honesty right from toddlerhood. Like a complete cultural overhaul.

4. Focus on education - like essential subjects. Cut out Life Orientation and do extra maths in that time.

5. Just get rid of half of the government.

I can add more ideas...just let me know.

It's seen as a wealth tax. Reasoning being that these are services used by the wealthy. The flaw is that every time they raise fees and taxes it lifts the bar to entry. So make licenses more expensive and those people who may have started with a R20k bakkie for a business can no longer afford to maintain it. Increase the tax on monitors and the TVs that were imported as monitors are now more expensive for everyone. Charge a digital tax and people have to keep to using traditional entertainment.

With speak of the 4IR we should be doing the opposite and reducing the barriers to entry.

Won't be long till govt installs a little scale just above the water level in your toilet and starts a sewage tax per kilogram.

Oh dear, ours is half blocked.

 

[Wayne_ABC]

Won't be long till govt installs a little scale just above the water level in your toilet and starts a sewage tax per kilogram.

Well, actually there is already a sewage charge on your rates bill. Not quite sure how they measure it

 

[bwana]

The PBO, which provides independent, objective and professional advice and analysis to parliament, said digital tax is gaining international attention.

 

[wingnut771]

Well, actually there is already a sewage charge on your rates bill. Not quite sure how they measure it

In durban, it's relative to how much water you use.