Reduced tax cut for Facebook – Västerbotten Courier

Economy. Government proposes greatly reduced electricity tax for server rooms, to the level of in manufacturing. For IT giants like Facebook, it means million savings.

Facebook would when they planned the servers in Lulea is fully expanded to serve over 100 million a year if the proposal is adopted, according to estimates by the magazine Computer Sweden has done.

Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson points out that it is important for Sweden to compete on equal terms with other countries when it comes to attracting iT companies. Therefore, the Government wishes to server rooms to be taxed as industrial and not service.

– It’s all about growth and jobs, especially in the north of Sweden, she said.

the finance minister sees nothing wrong in this favored by the new tax.

– they get the same rate as other industries which are in Sweden. It is exactly the same rate as our second base industry has, and this has the potential to become a new basic industries in Sweden, she says.

The government’s proposal to give more data centers the same rate as the basic industry, 0.5 per cent kilowatt-hour, that means reduced tax revenues by approximately SEK 270 million.

– It is financed through some rule adjustments need to be made to the EU, explains Magdalena Andersson.

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