MEPs in the European Parliament have signalled their support in clear and uncertain terms for the taxation of digital services, during a vote in Thursday’s plenary session (13 December) in Strasbourg. “Both the European Parliament and the European people want tech giants to pay their taxes,” Socialist MEP Paul Tang said, after the results came…
MEPs expressed their indignation on Wednesday 12 December at the deadlock in the Council’s negotiations on the proposal to tax gross income from the activities of digital platforms (‘digital services tax’ or DST) at 3%; meanwhile, the European Parliament prepares to vote on Thursday on the two ambitious opinion reports by Dariusz Rosati (EPP, Poland)…
The centre-right EPP have made a last-ditch attempt to narrow the scope of the EU’s proposed Digital Services Tax, in a move that would see streaming services such as Netflix excluded from the proposals. EURACTIV also understands that a contingency of MEPs from the S&D, the Greens and GUE/NGL have proposed to raise the DST…
While Minister of Finance across Europe are still fighting among each other about taxing tech companies that use loopholes to avoid paying tax, a study in six EU countries shows strong and broad support for a tax on tech giants. More than 75 per cent of all citizen in Denmark, Sweden, France, The Netherlands, Germany…
Terwijl de ministers van Financiën nog steeds onderling verdeeld zijn en dinsdag een besluit moeten nemen, is de publieke steun in zes EU-landen voor een belasting voor techreuzen groot. Meer dan 75% van de respondenten steunt de introductie van een belasting voor techreuzen. Ook is er duidelijke steun voor de maatregelen als de Verenigde Staten…
The draft report for the opinion by Paul Tang (S&D, Netherlands) on the European Commission’s proposal for a 3% tax on the gross earnings of the activities of digital platforms (‘digital services tax’ or DST) is good to go. It will be discussed by the committee on economic and monetary affairs of the European Parliament…
European Parliament will discuss a more ambitious digital service tax, through a higher rate of 5% and a broader scope, including a tech-giant like Amazon “The digital service tax is right to address the glaring distortion of an unlevel playing field and to address the growing inequality between workers and small enterprises on the one…