Digitised Products (Taxation)

HC Deb 25 January 2002 vol 378 cc1145-6W

Mr. Lidington

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proposals the Government are making within the European Community for alternatives to the Commission's paper COM (2000) 349. [26448]

Mr. Boateng

As part of on-going EU discussions on the taxation of digitised products supplied to consumers, the Government have consistently argued that, in the

Ruth Kelly

The information requested is given in the table:

medium term, an electronic solution should be introduced for charging, collecting and distributing the tax due on these supplies in the place where they are consumed, and that any short-term solution should be both temporary and simple to administer. We are confident that final agreement will soon be reached on this basis.