Socialists and Democrats have pushed to ensure fair taxation of tech giants
Lundi 3 décembre 2018
Communiqué de presse du groupe S&D
The Socialists and Democrats led today a broad cross-party coalition to introduce a tax on the digital services provided by tech giants such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Booking or Spotify that could generate billions of much-needed public revenue every year in Europe. The S&Ds called on EU finance ministers to follow the Parliament’s example and swiftly adopt the Digital Services Tax (DST) at their meeting tomorrow.
A poll released today shows that 80% of citizens from Germany, France, Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark support the introduction of a digital tax for tech giants.
According to the proposal, a tax of 3% on turnover would be introduced as a first step. Should an international agreement on digital taxation not be reached in the near future, the S&D Group also demands to raise the tax rate from 3% to 5% on turnover, following a review of the Directive.