Electronic commerce: taxation

Introduction
The Inte
et is a vast multinational framework comprised of more than 1,463,632,361 of Inte
et users in the world and the penetration is 21.9% and it continues to grow in all parts of the world, according to the latest report from Inte
et World Stats . The Inte
et's commercial as individual consumer use has skyrocketed. During the last years the Inte
et has spurred the development of new businesses, products and services, enabled unprecedented innovation as well as new and less expensive methods for research and communication. For individuals, the inte
et provides access to a virtually limitless amount of unfiltered information, consumer choices, and communication.
Just ten-fifteen years ago, the terms "electronic commerce" and "e-commerce" were virtually unheard of; today, they are household words. The appearance of new type of business activity leads to taxation issues are brought up.
I've made an attempt to highlight the essence of electronic commerce in the perspective of taxation, main issues and conce
s resulted from it, to examine possible solutions to the major problems.

Conclusion

It is trite, but true, that taxation of e-commerce is one of the main conce
s for inte
ational agencies and tax authorities worldwide. A healthy economy fueled by Inte
et technology is an important factor in the current boom that is filling gove
ment coffers.
Very often a transnational phenomenon, ignoring boundaries and frontiers, e-commerce presents challenges to any single country's laws. In the field of taxation the need has been created for tax administrations to assess the potential impact of this form of business both on the tax base as well as on the way in which taxes are administered. Since goods and services are bought and sold via the Inte
et across such national boundaries, any one country is faced with the novel difficulty of taxing such material effectively.
The Inte
et represents a new world of enterprise, increasingly easy for both buyers and sellers to access. Rather than looking for ways to take a chunk of it, politicians should view the Inte
et as what it is: a means to a more promising future for everyone.
The successful development of this sphere depends to a large extent on trans-border solutions based on policy co-ordination between countries and between stakeholder constituencies.
It should be considered how that works inte
ationally, to provide the same level of certainty to gove
ments and businesses that we aim for today in relation to conventional commerce. We need to be clear about where taxation takes place, and how – especially to avoid the risks of double taxation, or unintentional non-taxation.