The EU wants to begin taxing the turnover of major tech firms Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple, rather than profits.
Corporate welfare General

Amazon HQ subsidies exceed $4.6 billion

November 19, 2018

Amazon is set to receive around $4.6 billion in corporate welfare from the US taxpayer, reports Good Jobs First. These subsidies are used by states to entice Amazon to locate operations and investment within their […]

Corporate welfare General

EU State Aid inquiry

March 27, 2016

EC State Aid probe into UK support for biomass plant  06/01/16 20:49 The European Commission is to investigate whether the UK’s plans to subsidise the conversion of part of a coal power plant to operate […]