Many e-commerce transactions involved payments for a mix of services or were mixed contracts. It is generally accepted that the tax treatment followed the consideration for the predominant element of the transaction rather than breaking the transaction up into all the constituent parts where the other elements of the transaction were only incidental or ancillary to the main part. This is particularly so for B2C transactions for micro-payments.
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