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The Tax on Certain Digital Services passes its last examination in the Senate this Wednesday. If approved, the only thing left to do is for the new tax to be published in the Official State Gazette. The bill proposed that the rule come into force 3 months after its publication in the BOE, so it is expected that the famous Google rate will end up being applied in Spain from January 2021 . This, on paper. But it is not entirely clear what will happen in the coming months, in the context of the pandemic and knowing the immediate references. Emmanuel Macron's France has its technology tax - known as the GAFA rate for its acronym for Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple - approved, but it is not being applied at the expense of resolving the debate on this new tax at a global level.
The Spanish Google tax was approved in the Congress of Deputies at the end of July, with a transaction agreed with the PNV so that the new law on Taxes on Certain Digital Services complies with the economic agreement of the Basque Country. Read more: The Government approves a historic increase in the spending ceiling and worsens its Middle East Phone Number List forecasts for this year: unemployment will rise to 17% and GDP will fall by 11.2% Other amendments that were then incorporated into the bill's presentation clarified the term "data transmission" in the explanatory memorandum of the rule, so that a concept of telecos would not be affected, or eliminated the need for technological Those who are going to be taxed by the new rate would have to register in a newly created census, according to what the newspaper Cinco Días reported at the time .
On the agenda of the Senate Plenary that meets this Wednesday is the vote on the opinion of the Commission that has been in charge of processing the Google tax bill. The President of the Government himself, when asked by Business Insider Spain at the end of May, recalled that large technology corporations were not paying taxes in Spain, and that it is urgent that this be so. "We believe that it is urgent and necessary when we talk about tax justice that these large corporations contribute resources to the public treasury . If it can be done at a global level, great (...) if it can be a European solution, of course, the Government of Spain is delighted that this is the case, because the message we sent out will actually be stronger," he stressed.