PMO asks Ministries to suggest measures to support respective sectors

PMO asks ministries to suggest measures to support respective sectors

They also suggested that the levy should not be imposed on services or goods that are executed online but delivered offline – for instance, online hotel bookings, air ticketing and even heavily regulated financial services – besides seeking a clear definition of what comprises online sale of goods, services and the digital or electronic platform.

From laptops to apparels, people are logging on to e-commerce platforms like Amazon, Paytm Mall and Snapdeal to place orders for non-essential items, but lack of adequate manpower amid the lockdown could delay deliveries.

Ecommerce leaders including Amazon and Flipkart have been able to recover only one-fifth of their pre-Covid-19 demand even after they opened up sales of non-essentials across smaller towns and cities which fall under the Green and Orange zones, as per analysts and industry insiders.

Demand for razors, epilators, trimmers and hair colour soars on ecomm platforms during the lockdown

Published: December 2012

Winner of the 2013 Walter Owen Book Prize awarded by the Foundation for Legal Research!

Electronic Commerce and Internet Law in Canada, 2nd Edition is a definitive resource on Internet and e-commerce law from Canada’s leading IT law experts, Teresa Scassa and Michael Deturbide.

With a Foreword written by Justice Thomas Cromwell of the Supreme Court of Canada, this latest edition’s extensive coverage addresses the vast changes that have taken place in this dynamic and rapidly evolving field.

Topics covered:

• New Copyright Act amendments
• Trademark issues online
• Online contracting, including browse wrap agreements
• Personal information protection in the private sector
• Software and e-business patents
• Consumer protection online
• Canada’s new anti-spam legislation
• Online Anonymity
• Regulation of online speech
• Online defamation
• Intermediary liability
• Web-based competition
• Internet domain names
• Jurisdictional issues

About the Authors
Teresa Scassa, B.A., LL.B., B.C.L., LL.M., S.J.D. is the Canada Research Chair in Information Law at the University of Ottawa. She is a member of the External Advisory Committee to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and sits on the Canadian Government Advisory Panel on Open Government.

Michael Deturbide, B.Sc. (Hons.), B.J., J.D., LL.M. is the Associate Dean and Professor of Law at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology, and Associate Director of the Law and Technology Institute at Dalhousie.

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Your business is e-volving at a rapid pace and the tax implications are often overwhelming. It's complex, and you know you need to stay connected, but how? CCH is once again providing you with leading edge solutions and is proud to bring you the first authoritative reference book of it's kind: GST and E-Commerce: Planning and Risk Management. You'll find volumes of basic and detailed information in one convenient, targeted source. It will connect you with relevant, critical information about GST/HST in Canada. If you're doing business online, or advising someone who does, you need this book!

Target Audience

• Companies that sell or distribute products or services through the Internet
• Companies that purchase or consume products or services that are supplied through the Internet
• Companies that promote or advertise through the Internet
• Companies that do anything remotely by electronic means, including remote hosting, data backup, transmission, remote access to software or servers, remote security, and remote file sharing

Features include:

• Comprehensive discussion of the manner in which the GST applies to e-commerce activities of every nature
• Detailed review of CRA e-commerce rulings and formal administrative policies issued in the past five years
• Discussion of CRA policy imperatives and the manner in which these imperatives impact on the taxation of e-commerce
• Identification of e-commerce trends, limitations, anomalous results and outstanding issues to be resolved
• Focus on threshold and other contentious issues including jurisdictional issues
• Discussion of carrying on business and permanent establishment tests in the e-commerce environment
• Discussion of audit patterns and leading exposure issues
• Exploration of planning opportunities for resident and non-resident businesses

Each topic includes a review of the current legislation and Canada Revenue Agency rulings and other documents.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 – Overview of the Book and Evolution of E-Commerce GST Rules
• Chapter 2 – Overview of the GST
• Chapter 3 – Characterization of Supply
• Chapter 4 – Single Versus Multiple Supplies
• Chapter 5 – Place of Supply
• Chapter 6 – Zero-Rating
• Chapter 7 – GST Registration and the Non-Resident Override
• Chapter 8 – Permanent Establishment Issues
• Chapter 9 – Carrying on Business in Canada
• Chapter 10 – Agency
• Chapter 11 – Introduction to the Rulings Chapters
• Chapter 12 – Advertising Services
• Chapter 13 – Third Party Sales of Goods
• Chapter 14 – Software and Software Related Offerings
• Chapter 15 – Telecommunication Services

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Updated: June 2012

Today, every international transaction has potential antitrust implications. Before you risk anything in foreign trade, consult the fifth edition of Wilbur L Fugate's Foreign Commerce and the Antitrust Laws. He offers expert analysis of how U.S. antitrust laws affect companies' abilities to import and export goods, invest in foreign companies and enter into joint ventures and other trading arrangements.

It provides in-depth discussion of current statutory and case law, as well as expert analysis of the latest developments, including areas like foreign licensing of intellectual property, transnational mergers and acquisitions, and transportation restrictions and other problems of international distribution. You will find everything you need to ensure protection under - and compliance with - today's far-reaching antitrust and competition laws.

Table of Contents:

• Volume I
  • Chapter 1: Antitrust Statutes – Basic Philosophy and General Interpretation
  • Chapter 2: Jurisdiction Over Foreign Commerce Under the Antitrust Laws
  • Chapter 3: Antitrust Jurisdiction in Personam Over Corporations Operating Abroad
  • Chapter 4: Application of Antitrust Laws to International Trade Practices Generally
  • Chapter 5: Rule of Reason, Ancillary Restraints, and Antitrust Defenses
  • Chapter 6: Monopilization in Foreign Trade
  • Chapter 7: The Webb-Pomerene Act and the Export Trading Company Act
• Volume II
  • Chapter 8: Patents and Technology
  • Chapter 9: Trademarks in Foreign Trade
  • Chapter 10: Foreign Subsidiaries and Acquisitions
  • Chapter 11: Foreign and Foreign-Related Joint Ventures
  • Chapter 12: Foreign Investment – Including Multinational Enterprise Aspects
  • Chapter 13: Auxiliary Antitrust Statutes and Antitrust Provisions of Regulatory Statutes
  • Chapter 14: Nature of Antitrust Judgments and Relief in Foreign Trade
  • Chapter 15: Foreign Antitrust Laws
• Appendices
• Table of cases
• Table of statutes
• Index

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