• FORUM.Sánchez is considering creating a vice-presidency for technological development
  • SUPPORT: Calviño insists on a Spanish Google rate whether or not there is an international agreement

The technology firm Ametic, one day after having the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, at the close of his annual meeting, insists: the Google rate will make "Spain perceived as a place a little more expensive and uncertain", such and as they have stressed since the association.

In Ametic's opinion, a tax in this sense would end up falling, not only in large companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, but in other more vulnerable, yet to be developed.

"The cost is expected to be borne by small businesses, freelancers, users - especially those with low incomes - non-profit organizations or public bodies," said Paul MacDonnell, executive director of the Global Digital Foundation. "The marginal cost of 0 to 1 euros that is passed on to the consumer of a free service, such as those provided by Google, is almost infinite, so there is a danger for people with low incomes who pay nothing," believes this specialist.

Francisco Hortigüela, CEO of Ametic, warns that "what is most damaging is that it is a tax in a single country. We are advocating a global and company level harmonization. We ask that what the OECD decides to implement is implemented. in all countries, but not that there are different rates. We cannot create rates and problems with digitalization in Spain . "

This request is manifested after Sánchez and Ametic have met and shared a forum in Santander, with three acting ministers during the course of the digital economy meeting. In the Cantabrian capital, the socialist candidate was in favor of granting "with some nuance" the creation of a vice-presidency for Reindustrialization, Innovation and Digitalization, as demanded by the employer of the sector, but seems willing to move forward with the Google rate . Nadia Calviño, head of Economics, had made it clear previously.

Since the PSOE has included the Tax on Certain Digital Services among the proposals for the formation of Government (measure number 210 of a total of 370), it is worth thinking that companies and employers already think of knocking on other doors: "On the one hand, we hope that the Government will reflect, but there is another way, that the parties in the Congress will reflect and in the end we will wait for the OECD. We are 2019 and we should only wait until 2020."

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