- Latin American countries face challenges in taxing digital services without isolating from global trade.
- The OECD’s slow progress on reallocating profits has led to unilateral digital service taxes.
- DSTs offer revenue opportunities but complicate the tax landscape and risk double taxation.
- These taxes highlight the urgency for developing economies and the limitations of multilateral solutions.
- US foreign tax credit rules add complexity, with Brazil and Colombia as key examples.
- Brazil’s gross revenue tax on cross-border services acts as a DST, targeting large digital platforms.
- Colombia extends corporate tax obligations to nonresident digital service providers, functioning as a DST.
- Latin American DSTs are seen as responses to the OECD’s delayed solutions.
- Traditional withholding taxes in the region apply to various outbound payments.
Source: news.bloombergtax.com
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