Amazon and Starbucks 'pay less tax than a sausage stand', Austria says

[Little Tich]

Source: The Guardian

Centre-left politician also criticises Google and Facebook and complains that EU states with low-tax regimes have lured multinationals

Multinational companies including Amazon and Starbucks pay less tax in Austria than one of the country’s tiny sausage stands, the republic’s centre-left chancellor lamented in an interview published on Friday.

Chancellor Christian Kern, head of the Social Democrats and of the centrist coalition government, also criticised internet giants Google and Facebook, saying that if they paid more tax subsidies for print media could increase.

“Every Viennese cafe, every sausage stand pays more tax in Austria than a multinational corporation,” Kern was quoted as saying in an interview with newspaper Der Standard, invoking two potent symbols of the Austrian capital’s food culture.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/02/multinationals-amazon-starbucks-austria-says

[msongs]

1. TPP values are world wide. take and give back only what is forced to give back nt

[burrowowl]

2. K&R!!!!!!

[Plucketeer]

3. If only

the WORLD would wake up to these gluttonous thieves and stop courting them. The nations that give them haven are complicit in the swindle!

[Sunlei]

4. Not long ago the USA had to make Amazon collect tax, they didn't for a longtime. Took advantage of

the old school tax system, if someone bought something out of state there was no tax.

[itsrobert]

5. Actually, California forced them to do it

The Feds had nothing to do with it.

[Sunlei]

6. Ca. 'first' on a lots over the decades. To bad The Terminator and its (R)s wrecked up the place.

[forest444]

7. Aber, natürlich!

The guy with the sausage stand can't bribe legislators and regulators.