"On the Council's proposal to resume discussions on the economic governance framework, in particular on tax rules, as I have already indicated, the Commission intends to relaunch this public debate in the autumn ," said Paolo Gentiloni , EU Commissioner for Economic Affairs, explaining that the Commission is postponing the debate on the Google tax at Community level for a few months.
European representatives met with US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in Brussels, and after G20 countries agreed at their meeting in Venice over the weekend on a global minimum tax on large corporations .
“I can say on behalf of the Commission that we share with the US administration the oman number data conviction that we need not only a rebound to pre-pandemic GDP levels, but also to better rebuild our economies ,” Gentiloni said after the meeting with Yellen, which he defines as “an excellent and very welcome session.” The decision to postpone the discussion on the Google tax would be motivated, Bloomberg reports , by US pressure for the EU to reconsider the proposal for this tax.
According to the European Union, the plan is to study and analyse in depth the specific aspects of the agreement reached by the G20 regarding the implementation of a global tax on multinationals.
In this way, the EU postpones the debate on the controversial Google tax, already implemented in countries such as France and Spain, which was initially scheduled to be discussed again next week. We will have to wait to see if Europe finally agrees to the US requests and banishes the idea of the famous tax at the community level, or if on the contrary it takes up the issue again after a few months. According to community sources and reported by El País , Brussels is not throwing in the towel on the digital tax , although it does need more time to convince the United States that it is not discriminatory.