Work has got underway at the European Parliament on the Commission's two proposals on the taxation of the digital sector: the long-term 'structural' solution and the interim solution ('digital services tax' or DST), to tax the gross income of the activities of digital platforms at a level of 3% (see EUROPE 11986).
On Wednesday 29 August, there was just an initial exchange of views between rapporteurs and members of the committee on economic and monetary affairs (ECON), but the MEPs took the...