Austria will press ahead with a proposed tax on internet giants after plans for ...
FILE PHOTO: Austria's Finance Minister Hartwig Loeger addresses the media before a cabinet meeting in Vienna, Austria August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader
Austria said in January that it would tax firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook and Alibaba 3 percent of their advertising revenue from within Austria. “Once again Europe has not managed to find a common position on this issue,” Loeger told a news conference. “I am here today to say clearly again that we will implement and stick to what we have always said, namely introduce a national digital tax in Austria.”
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