Germany eyes 10% digital tax on tech giants
Germany eyes 10% digital tax on tech giants
Proposed levy would affect companies including Google and Meta
cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/3086396
Sharing the non-paywalled version from the original post: https://archive.is/2025.05.29-170356/https://www.ft.com/content/39d4678d-a7e1-4fce-b8d8-eb799cfed3e6
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Make them pay 10% and then invest it in opensource. Right? .... right?
Germany already has a programe to fund open source software: The Sovereign Tech Fund
Last year it was expanded to become a proper government agency.
Accessibility options and better dev tooling in Gnome? Funded by the German Government
Better security with SMBA network shares? Enabled by the STF.
FreeBSD, OpenSteetMap and Arch Linux? All of them received money from the German Government in the last couple of years.
Wake me up when it happens
How about 15%.