It would be a matter of taxing large companies, for the use of public space, the traffic and the pollution they generate, to allocate the proceeds, to promote and encourage local local commerce.
At present, we see how large online sales companies obtain great benefits from cities where they do not pay taxes, as if local commerce does.
Something, which undoubtedly represents an additional comparative offense for traditional commerce, which, in itself, has enormous difficulties in being able to compete against these "commercial giants".
On this idea, the Municipal Socialist Group considers that it is necessary to open a debate to tax these types of companies at the local level.
One of them (Amazon), had revenues throughout Spain in 2019, of 7,500 million euros, 15% of all the country's trade, contributing (via taxes) only 5.5 million euros.
Likewise, during the confinement period, it increased its sales by 40%, and the rest of the businesses were not able to compete with equal opportunities.
For every job that it creates, it destroys two, as well as degrading entire neighborhoods where local businesses close, not holding the monopoly that these large companies exercise over products and their prices.
From the Socialist Group, we want to make it very clear that we do not want to penalize riders or online purchases in local stores; We want the operators that have their corporate headquarters outside the municipality to contribute as we all do, to the maintenance of services, infrastructures, etc and we even think that it would be desirable to allocate the proceeds to local commerce.
The experts bet on a gross percentage of the turnover of each company in the city the previous year.
The main objective of this rate is to promote and encourage local commerce in our municipality, which is so affected by the pandemic.
