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The European Union is introducing a new type of tax in the amount of 1% to 5% revenue for the companies high-tech sector

In the European Union are going to introduce a new type of tax, which implies the payment to 5% Revenue from all major corporations, working in the field of high-tech.

In a special document of the European Commission, which will be released in late March 2018 of the year, It reported that this tax will be applied only to those corporations, who earn more per year 759 000 000 Euro worldwide, but directly in Europe, Income must exceed 10 000 000 euro.
The tax will affect the company, that sell online-advertising, in particular, it is Google Inc., also will be subject to tax on large online stores, eg, Amazon, organizations, providing advertising space on the network, the Internet - the largest social network.

But Stream-services and businesses, who develop online applications, cloud computing and other IT-services, this tax will not be levied. Interesting, that the tax calculation will be carried out on the basis of, where most of the target company's users, rather than where the firm is located directly.

Until that moment, the document with the bill will be published, it is subject to various amendments and changes. This tax is called a temporary measure, which will have to work until, both in the European Union will be a full-scale project of digital tax.

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