Digital Tax: Google Charges Customers

CompaniesMedia ♦ Published: January 31, 2020; 20:16 ♦ (Vindobona)

The search engine operator Google wants to collect the new digital tax, which has been levied in Austria since January on income from online advertising by international corporations, in its entirety from its advertising customers.

All forms of online advertising that Internet users can see in Austria, regardless of the advertiser's location, are affected by the increase in price. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / The Pancake of Heaven! [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)]

The daily newspaper "Der Standard" reported on Friday that Google - an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products - has announced in a letter to its customers that it intends to add five percent to the invoice amount in the second half of 2020 at the earliest.

All forms of online advertising that Internet users can see in…