Why is Australia Taxing Global Digital Platforms that don’t Pay for News?

Name: Why is Australia Taxing Global Digital Platforms that don’t Pay for News?
Uploaded: 2024-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Duration: 3 min
Description: Come January 1, 2025 and Australia will begin to tax international platforms and search engines unless they share revenues with Australian news organisations. On November 28, this year, the country had also approved a ban on social media for children under 16 years of age. With these two big decisions, Australia has been leading the fight against technology for quite some time now.

2024 • 3min • International • Explainer

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Come January 1, 2025 and Australia will begin to tax international platforms and search engines unless they share revenues with Australian news organisations. On November 28, this year, the country had also approved a ban on social media for children under 16 years of age. With these two big decisions, Australia has been leading the fight against technology for quite some time now.