New Tax on Digital Services: A Step Towards Fairer Taxation in the EU’s Single Market?

Author(s):  
Pernilla Rendahl
IEE Review ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
John C. Williams
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Author(s):  
D. N. Butorin

The article discusses the process of the digitalization of the educational organization of secondary vocational education. When automating routine processes, at some point, problems may arise in the transition from solving local accounting problems to submitting regulated reports. Often, digitalization becomes the only possible solution to the problems of combining the performance of job tasks based on data from various departments. This is especially evident when implementing integration with external federal information systems. The development of digital services for students with the help of the information service “NaLentu!” (”Go to a Class!”) is shown. Based on it, the mailing of the schedule, the “digital student’s record-book”, and the order of documents are implemented. It is described how one of the federal systems became the reason for the digitalization of processes in social accounting, the appointment and accrual of grants. The problems of the implementation of the accounting system on the part of employees, in particular, the perception by some of them of digitalization as a threat to their interests, are indicated. Further automation trends after the implementation of information systems in the decision of the central tasks of the educational organization are demonstrated. The stages of the introduction of information systems for accounting for vocational training and additional professional education are described, the analysis of the results of their implementation on the basis of College of Oil and Gas in Achinsk is given.


2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Hardy

Between 2000 and 2010, new institutional arrangements were created for UK broadcasting regulation, built upon a radical rethinking of communications policy. This article examines key changes arising from Labour's media policy, the Communications Act 2003 and the work of Ofcom. It argues that changes within broadcasting were less radical than the accompanying rhetoric, and that contradictory tendencies set limits to dominant trends of marketisation and liberalisation. The article explores these tendencies by reviewing the key broadcasting policy issues of the decade including policies on the BBC, commercial public service and commercial broadcasting, spectrum and digital switchover, and new digital services. It assesses changes in the structural regulation of media ownership, the shift towards behavioural competition regulation, and the regulation of media content and commercial communications. In doing so, it explores policy rationales and arguments, and examines tensions and contradictions in the promotion of marketisation, the discourses of market failure, political interventions, and the professionalisation of policy-making.


2020 ◽  
Vol 338 ◽  
pp. 265-275
Author(s):  
Daniel Zimmermann

In July 2019 the new president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, presented her guidelines for the period of presidency 2019-2024. While most proposals perpetuate the current reform agenda, the focus on the social dimension of the single market is remarkable. Von der Leyen has not only announced the full implementation of the European Pillar on Social Rights, but also highlighted new investment in digital competences seen as a key to competitiveness and innovation of the European economy. This paper will discuss whether the dynamics of the digital single market could lead to a new impetus on EU social policy and on European funding of training programmes. Therefore, an overview of significant funding programmes promoting digital skills is given.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Necka ◽  
Carolyn Amir ◽  
Troy C. Dildine ◽  
Lauren Yvette Atlas

There is a robust link between patients’ expectations and clinical outcomes, as evidenced by the placebo effect. These expectations are shaped by the context surrounding treatment, including the patient-provider interaction. Prior work indicates that the provider’s behavior and characteristics, including warmth and competence, can shape patient outcomes. Yet humans rapidly form trait impressions of others prior to any in-person interaction. Here, we tested whether trait-impressions of hypothetical medical providers, based purely on facial images, influence participants’ choice of medical providers and expectations about their health following hypothetical medical procedures performed by those providers in a series of vignettes. Across five studies, participants selected providers who appeared more competent, based on facial visual information alone. Further, providers’ apparent competence predicted participants’ expectations about post-procedural pain and medication use. Participants’ perception of their similarity to providers also shaped expectations about pain and treatment outcomes. Our results suggest that humans develop expectations about their health outcomes prior to even setting foot in the clinic, based exclusively on first impressions. These findings have strong implications for health care, as individuals increasingly rely on digital services to choose healthcare providers, schedule appointments, and even receive treatment and care, a trend which is exacerbated as the world embraces telemedicine.


2016 ◽  
pp. 70-86
Author(s):  
Iwona Miedzińska

This article is about the new approach directives and their impact on ensuring the free movement of goods in the single market. The author analysed the relevant legislation of the European Union adopted in the field of technical harmonisation: regulations and directives. The primary method of research used in this article is the legal and institutional analysis. Neofunctionalism and rational choice theory were also helpful to explain the processes of integration in this area. The analysis shows that the new approach directives affect the streamlining of procedures for the movement of goods in the single market. However, despite the simplification of procedures for the movement of goods, an adequate level of safety and consumer protection is ensured. The member states and the European Commission have effective response mechanisms when a product endangers life, health or safety of consumers.


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