UK E-Commerce Law
Legislation like the UK E-commerce Laws can help regulate e-commerce and international disputes.
Legislation like the UK E-commerce Laws can help regulate e-commerce and international disputes.
Describes how sales taxes can be lost through the use of e-commerce.
Another major challenge for e-commerce is to deal with different cultures and rules from different countries. Ads for war toys like these are banned in Greece, but not in the U.S. If this ad was shown on a website hosted by the U.S. and a citizen from Greece happened to find it, that citizen could file a court order to have the company in the U.S. take the image down. The question is, does the company in the U.S. have to comply with Greek rules?
This image represents the lack of tax on transactions made online state to state. The Internet Tax Freedom act passed during the Clinton administration. The law prohibits multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce and it wont be reviewed again until November 1, 2014.
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