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EU to Propose New Tax on Digital Firms Up to 5 Percent of Their Gross Revenues

EU to Propose New Tax on Digital Firms Up to 5 Percent of Their Gross Revenues

By Reuters | Updated: 27 February 2018 10:38 IST

Highlights

European Commission wants to tax firms based on their users' location
Proposal aimed at increasing tax bill of firms like Amazon, Google
These firms are accused by large EU states of paying too little in tax

The European Commission wants to tax large digital companies' revenues based on where their users are located rather than where their headquarters are, at a rate between 1 and 5 percent, a draft Commission document showed.

The proposal, seen by Reuters, aims at increasing the tax bill of firms like Amazon, Google and Facebook that are accused by large EU states of paying too little in tax by re-routing their EU profits to low-tax countries such as Luxembourg and Ireland.

The proposal says that the tax should be applied to companies with revenues above EUR 750 million ($922 million or roughly Rs. 6,000 crores) worldwide and with EU digital revenues of at least EUR 10 million (roughly Rs. 80 crores) a year.

The document is subject to changes before its publication which is expected in the second half of March. The tax would be a temporary measure until a more comprehensive solution to fair digital taxation is approved, the Commission said.

© Thomson Reuters 2018

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