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Sunshine (she/her)M to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish • 6 days ago

Germany considers 10% tax on internet giants

www.france24.com

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Germany considers 10% tax on internet giants

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Sunshine (she/her)M to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish • 6 days ago
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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…
  • @gressen@lemm.ee
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    Why is there Wikipedia logo in the pic?

    • @drspod@lemmy.ml
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      Probably because the person who made the image didn’t really think too hard about their job.

    • @B0rax@feddit.org
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      And why is there companies that sell physical goods? They are not the target here

      • @SW42@lemmy.world
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        Europe Imports More Services than goods from the US and A

        • @B0rax@feddit.org
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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.

          • @taladar@sh.itjust.works
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            Actually Alibaba also has their own cloud services (Alibaba Cloud)

            • @B0rax@feddit.org
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              Sure. But alibaba is not on the picture, aliexpress is.

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