A single country’s sales tax laws can be difficult enough to navigate (the U.S. has over 8,000 taxing jurisdictions alone). Businesses engaged in international commerce face a whole other dimension of tax complexity, and this week’s headlines prove the point: the European Union takes France and Luxembourg to court over varying VAT rates on ebooks and Denmark’s Treasury is claiming that Microsoft owes the country approximately $1 billion in unpaid taxes. Get the details on these stories and more below.
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