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Australia could tax Google, Facebook and other tech giants with a digital services tax – but don’t hold your breath

By Fei Gao, Lecturer in Taxation, Discipline of Accounting, Governance & Regulation, The University of Sydney, University of Sydney
Richard Krever, Professor of Tax Law, The University of Western Australia

The digital giants earn billions from Australian consumers. But efforts to tax a fraction of those profits have gone nowhere.

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