{"id":950893,"date":"2025-07-30T06:51:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T01:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=950893"},"modified":"2025-07-30T06:59:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T01:29:00","slug":"uber-loses-uk-supreme-court-appeal-over-tax-on-rival-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/30\/uber-loses-uk-supreme-court-appeal-over-tax-on-rival-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber loses UK Supreme Court appeal over tax on rival apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uber&#8217;s rival taxi operators will not face a 20% tax charge on their profit margins outside of London after the United Kingdom&#8217;s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that private-hire operators do not enter into a contract with passengers. <\/p>\n<p>Uber had brought the case following a 2021 decision by the United Kingdom&#8217;s Supreme Court that its drivers were workers, which had an impact on Uber&#8217;s tax and other obligations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber&#8217;s rival taxi operators will not face a 20% tax charge on their profit margins outside of London after the United Kingdom&#8217;s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that private-hire operators do not enter into a contract with passengers. Uber had brought the case following a 2021 decision by the United Kingdom&#8217;s Supreme Court that its drivers were workers, which had an impact on Uber&#8217;s tax and other obligations.<\/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-950893","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\/950893","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=950893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}