{"id":257665,"date":"2025-07-12T01:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T01:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257665\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T01:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T01:27:14","slug":"victory-for-trump-as-eu-backs-down-on-digital-taxes-in-next-budget-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257665\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory for Trump as EU backs down on digital taxes in next budget \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission will propose an EU-wide levy on tobacco products such as cigarettes and cigars. These goods are currently being taxed by individual countries, who keep the revenues for themselves.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/12584706-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6900792\"  \/>The EU&#8217;s idea comes amid a push to introduce new taxes on e-cigarettes and vapes that are opposed by Italy, Greece and Romania. | Tolga Akmen\/EPA<\/p>\n<p>The EU&#8217;s idea comes amid a push to introduce new taxes on e-cigarettes and vapes that are opposed by Italy, Greece and Romania.<\/p>\n<p>While not opposing the proposed new taxes, Sweden said that handing part of its national revenues to the EU is \u201ccompletely unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Commission also suggests taxing discarded electrical equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s proposal  is expected to also confirm proposals from 2021 to levy a carbon border tax \u2015\u00a0a popular idea among countries \u2015\u00a0and a take share of the revenues generated by the emissions trading scheme (ETS).<\/p>\n<p>This idea is politically sensitive among Eastern European countries who are most affected by ETS.<\/p>\n<p>In a concession to critics, the Commission suggested that only a small share of ETS revenues will flow to the EU budget, while the rest would stay with national governments. It added that a controversial plan to extend the scheme to buildings and road transport \u2015 known as ETS2, which will come into force in 2027 \u2015 won\u2019t be funneled into the EU budget.<\/p>\n<p>National governments will have to unanimously approve the new taxes over two years of fraught negotiations that will start after the Commission makes its proposal. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Commission will propose an EU-wide levy on tobacco products such as cigarettes and cigars. These goods are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[768,1194,943,26258,2437,2825,3677,12347,32,5398,2000,299,5187,474,1450,2199,2441,809,1438,812,479,1200,1201,49,12339],"class_list":{"0":"post-257665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-borders","9":"tag-budget","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-carbon-border-tax","12":"tag-companies","13":"tag-debt","14":"tag-digital","15":"tag-digital-tax","16":"tag-donald-trump","17":"tag-emissions","18":"tag-eu","19":"tag-europe","20":"tag-european","21":"tag-finance","22":"tag-greece","23":"tag-italy","24":"tag-markets","25":"tag-negotiations","26":"tag-romania","27":"tag-sweden","28":"tag-tariffs","29":"tag-tax","30":"tag-trade","31":"tag-united-states","32":"tag-waste"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114837667471580510","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}