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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.
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What to watch out for when DNS moves to Cloudflare

Cloudflare has an excellent DNS service offered free and available to all its plans.

When moving your DNS service, you'd notice upon adding your domain name or it's called websites with the "Add a site" button in Cloudflare dashboard, records are automatically drawn or pulled in which enables you to verify if everything is there.

For years this particular function has been flawless and it never disappoint.

What you need to do is make sure to disable every proxy enabled in each records before finally changing your name servers with your domain name registrar. The switch can happen immediately leaving the function of your registrar's DNS the moment you changed and applied the name servers provided by Cloudflare to finally use its DNS service. Most of the time, services and applications breaks with Cloudflare's proxy, enabled by default, which means they will be down due mostly to your DNS configuration. Not necessarily the services and applications involved as well as attached. Just make sure every service that your DNS facilitates are working.

If you have all that covered, your switch will be seamless and not a stakeholder will notice it.

Next to that is apply every security measures available there including DNSSEC and more. Unused URL including root or apex domain and even the default www can be easily redirected to any subdomain within the same domain name, or even a different domain name which you will have to consider every business reasoning and practicality of such decision before you do it. No more broken and dead links caused mainly by DNS capability.

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