Poland’s Minister for Digital Affairs, Krzysztof Gawkowski, recently reiterated his desire to see Poland introduce a tax on the revenues of major digital companies operating in Europe, including on their sales generated by targeted advertising or the sale of personal data.
In an interview with Euractiv on 18 August, the Minister stated that work on the law was “ongoing” and that it could come into force by 2027.
Poland put forward this idea last March. While the Minister for Digital Affairs is still very much in favour, the country’s new president, Karol Nawrocki, is firmly opposed, according to Polish media outlet money.pl.
The idea of a digital levy was raised by the EU in March, at the height of the trade war with the United States, before the issue was revisited. The Social Democrat group in the European Parliament, for its part, published a plea for the introduction of such a tax in April.
But the idea is far from unanimous among the Member States and the trade tensions with the United States have not led to renewed interest in it. (Original version in French by Isalia Stieffatre)