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Sunday Standard
Botswana is preparing to join a growing list of African countries that will effectively capture an untapped digital economy within their tax base. The move is a bid by many African nations to grow revenue from a sector that has experienced phenomenal growth over the past several years. In Botswana, the list of companies that are doing business remotely is long. It includes Alibaba, Netflix, Amazon, Meta (trading as Facebook, WhatsApp & Instagram), Google etc, and now the government says all of them will in the future be subjected to pay tax for the businesses carried here. The new development …