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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11889

24 October 2017
Contents Publication in full By article 17 / 29
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / Taxation
Sharing economy could be taxed like traditional economy, says EESC
Brussels, 23/10/2017 (Agence Europe)

Krister Andersson, head of the taxation policy group at BusinessEurope and co-rapporteur of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) on the taxation of the collaborative economy, has expressed personal concern at the EU's determination to move towards a turnover tax for the internet giants.

A tax on turnover rather than profit “could cause repercussions, in particular in new start-ups”, which tend to make losses in their first years of trading, he said in an interview with...

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