4 Jun, 2020 @ 14:35
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Spain’s Google tax clears first hurdle in path through parliament

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SPAIN’S proposed Google tax has cleared its first hurdle despite opposition from right-wing parties.

It is part of a finance bill in the process of going through parliament.The conservative PP, centre right Cs and far right VOX had backed a series of amendments that would have seen the tax dropped.

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But Congress rejected the amendments. Although this is a victory for PM Pedro Sanchez’s socialist coalition government, the Google tax is a long way from being approved.

The entire finance bill still has to be passed by Congress. It also includes other new taxes, including environmental ones, as well as a reform of corporate tax.

Minister of Finance, Maria Jesus Montero, said the Google tax would not affect small and medium businesses or retail e-commerce sites.

It would apply to tech giants with a global revenue higher than €750 million a year and more than €3 million income from Spain. They would be faced with a bill of 3% of earnings from online ads, deals brokered on digital platforms and sales of user data.

The government estimates it would rake in about €1 billion a year.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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