Indonesia makes foreign digital companies pay local taxes

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Google now faces having to pay domestic taxes in Indonesia which has just ruled that foreign digital companies with a large presence in the country must be treated as local entities.  © Reuters

SHOTARO TANI, Nikkei staff writer

JAKARTA -- Overseas digital companies that have a significant presence in the Indonesia market, such as Google and Facebook, will have to pay all relevant local taxes, Jakarta revealed on Wednesday.

The new regulation comes at a time when countries are grappling with how best to tax international technology companies that often pay little tax in the jurisdictions they operate in despite their significant presence.

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