On Wednesday March 6, 2019, the French cabinet will discuss a plan to levy taxes on the turnover in France of large internet companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Booking Airbnb and Uber.
The 3% on turnover shall apply to all internet companies with a worldwide turnover of more than € 750 million and a turnover in France of more than € 25 million and will be due for example on income from internet ads, trading platforms and trading in internet data.
The new tax rules should result in an extra revue for the French Treasury of approximately € 500 million a year.
The European Commission is also working on the introduction of profit tax for the digital economy. Due to disagreement between the member States, however, this digi tax has been postponed until 2022.
France has decided not to wait further for the European Commission’s decisions on this issue. Meanwhile, Spain and the United Kingdom mentioned that they are also working on their own digital sales tax.
