New Delhi, June 17 -- At the G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors held last week in Fukuoka, Japan, India's finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman did well to support the broad idea of a digital service tax levied on global online businesses that would be shared by various countries in some proportion. Details of the proposal are sketchy, but if it is accepted, it would mean that digital money-generators such as Facebook and Google will have to pay India some taxes, regardless of whether or not they are incorporated here and report local earnings. Though the US staunchly opposes it, given that most of the world's tech majors are headquartered there, other countries such as Japan, the UK and France are also in favour of working out a global deal that would let the rest of the world get a "fair share" of taxes. After all, a significant proportion of the internet user base on which they thrive is located in countries that get virtually nothing from their commercial success....