Apple about to be hammered by the EU
First to go down under the Digital Markets Act (DMA),
Apple will soon become the first company to incur a fine for violating the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).
Amazon Europe pays no tax on 51.3 billion euros of sales
Apparently it lost 1.16 billion euros
Amazon's main European retail business reported 1.16 billion euros ($1.26 billion) of losses in 2021.
German bankers suggest taxing home workers
To pay for those who have to go in
Working from home should be taxed to help support workers whose jobs are under threat, a report has suggested. Deutsche Bank Research suggests a tax of five percent of a worker's salary if workers choose to work from home when they are not forced to by the current pandemic.
Apple continues to sting the British taxpaper
What a surprise
The fruity cargo cult Apple is continuing to sting the British Inland Revenue.
French allowed to trawl social media for tax evaders
Constitutional court surrenders
The French courts have surrendered to plans by its government to trawl social media to detect tax avoidance.
Big tech moans about paying tax
Calls on the US government for protection
After refusing to pay tax in Europe for ages, Big Tech is so upset by the French demanding a piddling three percent on profits that it is asking for the US government to help.
Rockstar pays no UK corporation tax
Daylight robbery
Rockstar North, the Edinburgh-based developer of Grand Theft Auto, has paid no corporation tax over the past decade, despite making billions in revenue for its parent company Take-Two Interactive.
France approves internet giant tax
Nasty roast beef eating Americans we strike you roughly with a baguette
France’s lower house of parliament approved Thursday a small, pioneering tax on internet giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook -- and the French government hopes other countries will follow suit.
G20 agree on tech giants' tax loopholes
Looks like they will finally pay a bit of tax – eventually
The group of 20 finance ministers - the G20 - agreed to compile common rules to close loopholes used by global tech giants such as Facebook to reduce their corporate taxes.
Google pays EU more in fines than in tax
Must be cheaper not to pay
Search engine Google is paying the EU more in fines than it does in tax.