Digitalocean: 15% service tax to be levied on invoices of indian customers

  • Tax policy is political (and how to tax things online is one of the parts under active debate), so this story does not belong on HN this week.

  • What is the government trying to achieve by taxing foreign online services? There are no indigenous cloud hosting services like DigitalOcean.

  • Taxation is a political topic. Get it off HN.