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Philippine tax for digital services

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.

Online information provided for stakeholders' consumption

It must relay the true meaning and real application necessary in the physical world. We have probably all experience how to learn first thing about our plans before we go ahead and act. Like for instance, when we order something online, attend to some responsibilities for our organizations, communicate with people via video, chat and email including but not limited to asking stakeholders, very politely and sincerely, if there's anything else we can do to help further. This online environment must make us work to facilitate and relay exactly what we expect and do in the physical world. What the online information is telling us should be enough to readily make a decision and act accordingly. This is especially true when people have to do it themselves, read relevant information and will go there, say store, or anywhere else, to perform the chores required.  We cannot provide information online, when customers expect them to be a guideline or instruction to do something, that we know ...

Privacy Impact Assessment

Do you know what makes a Privacy Impact Assessment effective? Organizations doing privacy impact assessment or PIA must make sure that their language and questioning is directed to the party which they required both practical (meaning completeness of processes being utilized) and truthful answer from. If the PIA itself was designed and developed collectively by business, technology, legal and compliance practitioners putting every relevant element as a subject of business objectives, which doesn't tolerate counterproductive actions, then one might say, it's really hard to do this but then it would conclude and it's the best way to get into it really. No guilty feelings. It's what the people really would experience which is considerably good and ultimately the organization's safety is better emplaced in the face of the searing cyberspace. A PIA that's entirely an initiative of inexperience practitioner or a beginner in the job would show its shallowness and that ...