European Parliament first EU Institution to adopt concrete plan to tax digital giants such as Google, Facebook and Amazon
“National Finance Ministers cannot ignore that a majority of citizens wants to tackle the problem of multi-national companies paying almost no tax. Finance Ministers should stop blocking the plans to harmonise the Corporate Tax Base”, said Alain Lamassoure MEP and Markus Ferber MEP today ahead of Parliament’s vote on the so-called Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB).
MEPs also wrote new digital taxing rules into the draft law which originally did not address the problem of digital tech giants such as Google, Facebook and Amazon. “Without Europe-wide rules on how to tax digital companies, we will never have fairness in corporate tax. The principal of taxing companies where the value is created must also apply to the digital economy”, said Lamassoure and Ferber.
“We do not want to unitise corporate tax rates, but we want to harmonise what is taxed and where we tax. Tax rates must be decided by Member States, but the corporate tax base should be the same all over Europe“, explained Lamassoure and Ferber. Lamassoure and Ferber are respectively Parliament’s Rapporteur and the EPP Group’s Shadow Rapporteur on the two parts of the draft law which would fundamentally change how companies are taxed all over Europe.
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