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Your monthly bill for Netflix and Spotify may be going up. States are trying to capitalize on Americans’ growing fervor for digital consumption of movies, TV, music and other med... More

Are the streaming giants enjoying a free ride in Canada? That's been an increasingly vocal complaint from content creators and regional governments north of the border as Netflix a... More

France recently approved a 3% tax on revenues generated by large digital companies in its territory, a move that is now being investigated as a potentially unfair trade practice by... More

Your Netflix and other streaming video services are safe from state taxes, at least for now. Georgia lawmakers have removed an unpopular proposal to impose sales taxes on streaming... More

The cost to Netflix and chill, or add a new dance to your Fortnite moves, could be going up if you live in Georgia. Legislators in the Peach State are considering a new 4% tax on d... More

The U.S. Supreme Court freed states and local governments to start collecting billions of dollars in sales taxes from internet retailers that don’t currently charge tax to their ... More

Chicago raised eyebrows when the city announced a streaming tax on Netflix and similar internet services, the first of its kind in the country. The so-called “cloud tax” was a ... More

The budget commission of Italy’s lower house approved on Tuesday a measure obliging companies to pay a 3 percent levy on some internet transactions in a move aimed at bypassing E... More

As Canada rolls out a new digital strategy, the government has decided against imposing a sales tax on U.S. streaming video and digital services like Netflix, Amazon Prime and iTun... More

Following efforts to raise the income tax and impose taxes on payroll, services, sugary drinks and more, some Illinois state senators now want to tax internet streaming. An amendme... More

The Spanish Government is preparing a new digital copyright law to tax legal streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and HBO España. The so-called Canon Digital la... More

The Liberal government is reviewing whether to enforce a so-called Netflix tax on the digital services Canadians buy from foreign-based firms over the internet. A high-profile exam... More

A tax on Netflix, Hulu and other streaming-video services may be coming soon to your city or state. As jurisdictions lose the sales-tax money they once received from DVD rentals, t... More

At least a dozen cities in the Bay Area alone are weighing whether or not to adopt a streaming video tax to make up for lost revenue of those who no longer subscribe to cable, acco... More

For television viewers who “cut the cord” and moved over to streaming video services, the cable companies aren’t the only ones missing your money. Turns out your hometown mig... More

From a global perspective, the US came late to the tax incentives game. But by the end of the 2000s, more than 45 of the nation’s 50 individual states — from tiny Maine in the ... More

An initiative aimed at taxing Hollywood and foreign films in Russia in a bid to raise more funding for homegrown movies has failed amid opposition from exhibitors. "The [film exhib... More

The city of Pasadena’s decision that it will impose a 9.4 percent tax on SVOD services like Netflix and Hulu caught some of its council members off guard, and has some wondering ... More

The European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm, is mulling moves to impose a 20% European content quota on video streaming sites like Netflix and Amazon Prime. It al... More