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Germany plans to tax major tech companies like Google and Meta at 10%, targeting tax avoidance and boosting media funding. Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer leads the effort, aiming for a fairer contribution from digital firms.
🔍 Key Points: ✔ Legislation: A bill is in progress, with talks on voluntary payments. ✔ Global Trend: Matches similar taxes in Britain, France, India, and Canada. ✔ Trade Tensions: May strain U.S. relations, as past efforts faced backlash. ✔ Concerns: Higher consumer costs and digital slowdown are debated.
📌 Next Steps: Germany’s coalition supports the tax, but a final decision is pending. Chancellor Friedrich Merz will soon visit Washington for discussions.
Germany plans to tax major tech companies like Google and Meta at 10%, targeting tax avoidance and boosting media funding. Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer leads the effort, aiming for a fairer contribution from digital firms.
🔍 Key Points: ✔ Legislation: A bill is in progress, with talks on voluntary payments. ✔ Global Trend: Matches similar taxes in Britain, France, India, and Canada. ✔ Trade Tensions: May strain U.S. relations, as past efforts faced backlash. ✔ Concerns: Higher consumer costs and digital slowdown are debated.
📌 Next Steps: Germany’s coalition supports the tax, but a final decision is pending. Chancellor Friedrich Merz will soon visit Washington for discussions.
I have no inside knowledge of a potential stock listing of the popular anti-Whatsapp messaging app, Telegram. But I know this much, judging by most people I talk to, especially crypto investors, if Telegram ever went public, people would gobble it up. I know I would. I’m waiting for it. So is Sergei Sergienko, who claims he owns $800,000 of Telegram’s pre-initial coin offering (ICO) tokens. “If Telegram does a SPAC IPO, there would be demand for this issue. It would probably outstrip the interest we saw during the ICO. Why? Because as of right now Telegram looks like a liberal application that can accept anyone - right after WhatsApp and others have turn on the censorship,” he says.
The global forecast for the Asian markets is murky following recent volatility, with crude oil prices providing support in what has been an otherwise tough month. The European markets were down and the U.S. bourses were mixed and flat and the Asian markets figure to split the difference.The TSE finished modestly lower on Friday following losses from the financial shares and property stocks.For the day, the index sank 15.09 points or 0.49 percent to finish at 3,061.35 after trading between 3,057.84 and 3,089.78. Volume was 1.39 billion shares worth 1.30 billion Singapore dollars. There were 285 decliners and 184 gainers.
