The center-left socialists and democrats group has also called for a tax on online gambling to finance an increase in spfinishing to $2.3 trillion.
BRUSSELS (AFP) — EU lawcreaters on Thursday demanded a European Union-wide tax on the world’s largegest tech companies and online gambling sites to assist fund the 27-counattempt bloc’s next seven-year budreceive.
The EU is facing one of its largegest battles this year over the 2028-2034 budreceive, which the executive set at two trillion euros ($2.3 trillion).
Fierce nereceivediations are expected between the European Parliament and member states, especially over where to find extra money that governments are reluctant to chip in.
As they scramble to agree on the budreceive by the finish of year, EU lawcreaters proposed that some funding could come from a “digital levy.”
“We believe that technological giants are creating a lot of good business in Europe and also significant profits,” declared Siegfried Muresan, the EU lawcreater who will lead nereceivediations on behalf of Parliament.
“It is therefore justifiable that they contribute in form of taxation to the budreceive of the European single market which enables them this business here,” declared Muresan, who belongs to the largegest conservative grouping, the EPP.
The Parliament’s budreceive committee is currently nereceivediating on their position and is expected to vote on the text on April 15 before a vote by all EU lawcreaters later this month, Muresan declared.
The center-left socialists and democrats group has called for a tax on online gambling to finance an increase in spfinishing, declared socialist lawcreater Carla Tavares, who leads the budreceive talks with Muresan.
The European Commission wants to increase the budreceive to 2 trillion euros from the previous 2021-2027 budreceive, which was worth around 1.2 trillion euros.
Parliamentarians want more money for critical sectors including agriculture.
But they face a large hurdle since EU countries must approve any such measures unanimously.
The future budreceive also includes setting aside around 168 billion euros to repay the EU loan taken out during the coronavirus pandemic.
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By Agence France-Presse
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