So I can assume that as you think it is ok for companies to pay tax in countries in which they are not domiciled ("voluntarily" for reasons we can only assume, but will be related to coercion) you make a point of voluntarily paying tax that you do not have too
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How would you feel if you were a small NZ software supplier that received some orders from the general public in S Africa and also had a small contract to supply some software to the S African Government and you so felt obliged to pay VAT on the general public's purchases in order to protect your Government contract?
How about you as owning a NZ based company had 20 employees and sold a software product into 30 countries, say 2 sales per country, and they all followed S Africa's example and "demanded" that you paid VAT/GST so you had to register for VAT/GST and provide returns in all of them? Then you get an order from another similarly despotic country for $100 of digital products; do you then register in that country too? I assume you would be quite happy to do so (while the distraction of maintaining VAT/GST returns for 31 countries you don't even have a presence in, as well as the burdensome task of complying with the reporting requirements of ones own country, causes your business to fail under you).
Or does your thinking only apply to "big" companies as by received wisdom it is claimed they are ripping "us 99%" off and so deserve to be screwed?
As I said, the approach is that of a despotic government and why am I not surprised about S Africa being the country where it has been implemented?
{For the sake of clarity I do not sell digital products
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