Weimer Wants to Get Digital Tax Started in the Next Few Weeks
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Taxing internet corporations and promoting media from the proceeds is overdue, but without clear criteria a problematic distribution threatens.
Wolfram Weimer wants to have plans for a digital levy put to the vote in the Bundestag before the summer break.
"The Federal Council decided with a two-thirds majority that this levy should come in order to specifically support good journalism," Weimer said of the "Augsburger Allgemeine" (Dienstagsausgabe).He was confident that there would also be a majority in the Bundestag.In the coming weeks, the coalition would discuss the digital levy, Weimer announced. "We have a clear majority together in the Bundestag - from the Greens to the CDU.
But now quickly: Wolfram Weimer wants to launch the plans for the announced digital levy for Internet giants before the summer break. That's what the Minister of Culture says about the "Day of Local Journalism" of the "Augsburger Allgemeine". The revenues from the levying of corporations such as Google, Amazon or Meta are intended to support classical local journalism, says Weimer. In the coming weeks he plans discussions within the coalition an…
Wolfram Weimer is taking a serious approach to taxing internet giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook's parent company, Meta. The revenue is intended to fund media subsidies.
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