#budget2018 #digitalservicestax I'm hearing different views on whether the Apple App Store will be taxed under the "marketplace" head? What does #taxtwitter think?
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"Appstores" are specifically identified in the earlier HMRC consultation paper, but the Apple App Store (as I understand it) is Apple selling software to users. It's not directly intermediating (although of course it then pays developers).
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Replying to @AlexParkerDC @DanNeidle
Hand back you Tax Journo credentials now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes …
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Replying to @AislingTax @DanNeidle
I just can't believe that the Brits wanted to tax biscuits.
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Replying to @AlexParkerDC @DanNeidle
Its. A. Cake. (They do tax biscuits)
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Right. Obviously you can't tax cake if you want to stay in office.
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Reminds me of my favorite tariff case, when Marvel argued that mutants aren't people (contradicting the whole moral of X-Men stories) so they could claim the action figures weren't dolls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Biz,_Inc._v._United_States …
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That's even better than the giant jaffa cake
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Oh duh. I didn't see that the beginning of the thread was about jaffa cakespic.twitter.com/17V4NkipAE
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