Tag: Google tax
PARIS (Reuters) – French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said he expected more EU countries to join in the coming days a French-led push to tighten the taxation of online giants like Google and Amazon. Germany, Italy and Spain have already signed onto a French proposal that digital multinationals such as those two leading companies […]
News highlights for 4 May Google agrees to pay hundreds of millions to settle Italian tax row MILAN (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google has agreed to pay 306 million euros ($334 million) to settle a tax dispute with Italy, the company and the country’s tax authority said on Thursday. Read more… Facebook’s content production unit […]
The European Commission has presented a plan to charge internet companies for linking to online news following a heated, two-year-long fight over whether the “Google tax” will help publishers stay profitable—or simply be overzealous regulation that could “break the internet”. The measure is one of the most fought over parts of a controversial overhaul of EU copyright […]
ROME (Reuters) – Under pressure to find resources for his promises of sweeping tax cuts, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is hoping to raise billions of euros by forcing multinational Internet firms to pay taxes on profits generated in Italy. Treasury Undersecretary Enrico Zanetti said a so-called “Google Tax” could yield up to 3 billion […]
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