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Berlin (dpa) - Internet companies such as Google or Amazon should be forced to pay taxes according to the will of the CSU.
"We want to tax the Internet giants," says a paper on digital policy that the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" reported (Saturday).
The paper is to be adopted at the exam of the CSU regional group in the Bundestag on January 6th and 7th in Berlin.
If Google and Facebook made money with personalized advertising and data from Germany, then they would have to “give something back to our community from this profit”, says the document.
"The time is therefore ripe for the Google and Amazon tax."
Germany and Europe, so the proposal of the Christian Socialists, should lead the way in this matter.
So far, an international solution within the framework of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has taken a long time.
That is why “a Europe-wide regulation for minimum taxation” is needed.
The paper does not contain any information on a possible amount for such a tax.
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For years, US technology companies like Amazon or Google have been criticized again and again because, according to critics, they pay too few taxes in individual markets with their business model.