Teodorovici: We must grant big tech companies a better regime than their countries

Mediafax The former minister’s statements to Mediafax come in the context in which financial analysts have stated that the state budget could be supplemented if a special tax were introduced on advertising revenues of large digital platforms. „Today, we have a profit tax in Romania of 16%. There is a European directive that says that in the countries where the activity is carried out, companies with a turnover of over 750 million euros can be taxed at up to 15%. Here, in Romania, there is a certain contradiction. We have 16%; this means that we have to make a derogation, so to amend the tax code and provide for such a possibility of variation of the profit tax or a progressive tax, an approach of this kind”, declares Teodorovici. He emphasizes, however, that in terms of measures to (…)