The UK government has announced a new "digital services" tax of 2% that it plans to start levying on the UK revenues of tech giants like Amazon, Google and Apple, based on the money they make on digital services like advertising and streaming entertainment (but not online sales).
In 2015, to help fund conservation and waste management projects in the Maldives, the government passed a bill levying a "green tax" on tourists visiting resorts.
The regulationshave led to sometimes brutal crackdowns on families with more than one child,including forced abortions and sterilisation as well as the levying of heftyfines.
