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.
The earlier pronouncements about the top 3 layers of the OSI model, L8-10 of the (bold texts are added here) made sense in our world nowadays. They constitute the real requirements where a computing practitioner must perform its job a little better to achieve stability and sustainability in business-enabling and related technological facilities.
Layer 8 - The individual person—Technical (but fundamental)
Layer 9 – The organization—Administrative
Layer 10 – The government and international standards including management systems—Conformance or compliance
Without these, we never have been able to distinguished a job, that is final from the all on-going related tasks and non-stopping events concerning business-IT programs and projects. Much so for an IT operations that can be made upright until it fails, that's not having the regular maintenance it requires. Without the technical individual here, there is not much, even all the layers combined, can do for a business-computing systems that can be considered strategic, effective and efficient.
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