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.
We get our fair share to every single centavo in our captured electronic or digital activity-billing, -charges and -payments. All served through ingenuity or creativity, technology and automation--via business intelligence if not systems running artificial intelligence, or simply human intelligence. Fed by the people--authorities, customers, businessmen, financiers, technical and the nuisance induced by very poor technology integration buildup, which huge investment promises a highfalutin development is a great cloak to bleak corporality of technology leadership and operating expertise. The magnanimous flaw in corporate strategy is obvious. The unspoken possessiveness in profit is loud. To the contrary, people in technology must be expected to excel at it. They were trained and have been living it. When they fail, it is not about technology but their causal ability on business matter and probably relations to people that is lacking. The essential coupling in between business and techno...