Soon we will be paying more for digital services, even internet identifier like domain names can be included, and that's a definitive VAT. In PH it's equivalent to 12%. Although, we still have to see invoice for domain names registration and renewal fees being added with VAT. You should be getting reminders from your local and international service providers to key-in your tax details, if you haven't yet done so. We must say, this is especially for those who had to directly acquire digital services with the source and not through local resellers. If you've been dealing with local resellers, your digital services may probably have been subjected with, and had added, VAT included in your payment ever since. You should be, but you have to check it. For online local retailers, you may have been VAT registered and paying your taxes with or without that digital tax. Don't take this as an advice and ascertain it with your accountant to be sure.
With the recently concluded automated election, where only few were said to be not reach by the telcos to transmit results, there is a good chance that all over or majority of the parts of the Philippines is now possible to be connected to the global Internet. If the government, in support to the Strategic Roadmap for the ICT Sectors, ESkwela, et al, is going to pursue and fund the program as an immediate and priority project the connectivity can now happen or at any moment on. That is if the connections used during the 10 May 2010 automated elections are to be considered for the mentioned government projects.
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