The Italian parliament has this week approved a new budget for europe 2020. As part of this budget is a new tax that is aimed at a large tech like Facebook and Google, parent company, Alphabet.
Starting in January, in Italy, a tax of 3 per cent, levy on a portion of the digital sales revenue of the companies that each year more than 750 million euros in turnover, of which at least 5.5 million are in Italy).
the digitaks following Italy’s neighbor, France, which earlier this year, a similar tax laws. For the Italians it is expected that the burden, each year, some 700 million euros in revenue. France’s estimate of 400 million euros, to be able to write to the digitaks.
Earlier, the European Union is going to be a digitaks on the block, but there it is, the EU is now moving away. Here in Brussels, namely, unanimity is needed among the member states, but in countries such as Ireland and Luxembourg, to see nothing in the charges. In these countries, are, in fact, a lot of head-offices of the tech. Therefore, in France and in Italy itself, a digitaks in.
The load on the digital sales of the large-tech features to eye irritation, led to the then Us president, Donald Trump. The Americans argued that the tax was intended to make U.s. businesses to fail. He threatened this earlier in the year, with the import duties on French cheese.
