India, July 6 -- Foreign companies such as Amazon, Flipkart and Netflix may fail to comply with the July 7 deadline for paying equalisation levy, also called Google tax, while they wait for the government's clarification and the much-awaited 'Frequently Asked Questions' (FAQs) list.

On Saturday, the Income Tax department made changes to the form used to pay equalisation levy to facilitate the payment of the 2% levy on digital transactions in India by foreign e-commerce companies.

The modified challan on the website now has an 'Outside India' option for the payee to key in their details and complete the payment due.

The government, through the Finance Act 2020, had imposed a 2% levy on digital transactions, trade and services by non-res...