{"id":1025948,"date":"2026-08-04T07:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025948"},"modified":"2026-08-04T07:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:24:19","slug":"australia-hikes-levy-for-tech-giants-that-fail-to-strike-local-news-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/04\/australia-hikes-levy-for-tech-giants-that-fail-to-strike-local-news-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia hikes levy for tech giants that fail to strike local news deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian government has hiked a planned levy that will force tech giants to pay multimillion-dollar charges if they fail to strike commercial deals with local media outlets for news on their platforms. <\/p>\n<p>The government said on Monday it increased the \u200clevy for \u2060its planned News \u2060Bargaining Incentive to 2.5% from 2.25%. <\/p>\n<p>In a change from an \u200bearlier proposal, the tax would only be calculated from a tech company&#8217;s \u200badvertising revenue, rather than its entire business revenue, the government said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian government has hiked a planned levy that will force tech giants to pay multimillion-dollar charges if they fail to strike commercial deals with local media outlets for news on their platforms. The government said on Monday it increased the \u200clevy for \u2060its planned News \u2060Bargaining Incentive to 2.5% from 2.25%. In a change from an \u200bearlier proposal, the tax would only be calculated from a tech company&#8217;s \u200badvertising revenue, rather than its entire business revenue, the government said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025972,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025948\/revisions\/1025972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}