Revenue Department to tax Youtubers, online vendors and influencers

Youtubers, social media influencers and online vendors are to be taxed on advertising revenue, sales of merchandise or donations earned through their channels, according to Lawaron Saengsanit, director-general of Revenue Department. He said that the Revenue Department is to include these individuals in the tax system after it has succeeded in bringing over 200,000 people […]

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Six-year-old Russian YouTuber named among world’s highest earners for second year in row

A six-year-old girl born in Russia has entered the list of the world’s richest YouTube bloggers, setting a record for the number of views, according to Forbes’ latest list of high-earning YouTube stars. Anastasia Radzinskaya, who goes by the name Nastya on her channel, is the world’s seventh-wealthiest blogger, having generated 39 billion views in […]

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YouTube to remove videos containing Covid-19 vaccine ‘misinformation’

Video sharing platform YouTube has said it is banning videos containing misinformation about coronavirus vaccines, in an expansion of the service’s current rules regarding falsehoods and conspiracy theories about the pandemic. “A Covid-19 vaccine may be imminent, therefore we’re ensuring we have the right policies in place to be able to remove [related] misinformation,” YouTube […]

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