Germany eyes 10% digital tax on tech giants

https://www.ft.com/content/39d4678d-a7e1-4fce-b8d8-eb799cfed3e6

cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/3086396

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myrmidex@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)
atro_city@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y

Legend

atro_city@fedia.io · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Make them pay 10% and then invest it in opensource. Right? .... right?

Vittelius@feddit.org · 5 pts · 1y

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.

Zier@fedia.io · 1 pts · 1y

How about 15%.

Valmond@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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