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...