Software tariffs

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Nick Shinn
Nick Shinn Posts: 2,282
in Type Business
Perhaps I shouldn’t mention this, but I do wonder how a tariff might be applied to the purchase of a font licence from another country.

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  • Thomas Phinney
    Thomas Phinney Posts: 3,015
    I don’t know how it MIGHT be, but I understand that the current US tariff regime is all about physical goods, not services or digital goods.
  • Dave Crossland
    Dave Crossland Posts: 1,475
    edited May 1
    I think its REALLY hard to enforce, so they won't ever even try - whereas physical goods come through ports so are easier for customs departments to tax – although smuggling is an old word indeed, hehe :)

    Plus the USA is a huge net exporter of services, inversely to its net importation of goods.
  • Stuart Sandler
    Stuart Sandler Posts: 392
    edited May 1
    Does this make a case against blockchain to identify country of origin for software? :hushed:
  • James Puckett
    James Puckett Posts: 2,018
    In the USA our federal government is loathe to tax internet transactions.

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