Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 year ago

Germany considers 10% tax on internet giants

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Germany considers 10% tax on internet giants

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Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 year ago

Germany is weighing plans for a 10 percent digital tax for internet giants such as Alphabet and Meta, a senior official said Friday, despite the risk of stoking further trade tensions with the United…

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Sure, but on the picture we see aliexpress, Amazon and zalando, sellers of physical goods.

Granted, Amazon also sells digital services, but the others do not.
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  Actually Alibaba also has their own cloud services (Alibaba Cloud)
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    Sure. But alibaba is not on the picture, aliexpress is.

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