{"id":38656,"date":"2026-04-29T01:35:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=38656"},"modified":"2026-04-29T01:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:35:56","slug":"big-tech-must-pay-its-fair-share-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/big-tech-must-pay-its-fair-share-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"Big tech must pay its fair share: Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Greens are today calling on the Government to introduce a \u2018Big Tech Tax\u2019 following revelations that billions of dollars generated in Australia by global tech giants like Meta, Amazon and Google are being shipped offshore. <\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greens spokesperson for communications, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBig tech companies make billions of dollars off Australians and it\u2019s time to make them pay their fair share with a Digital Services Tax. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe will look closely at the details of the News Bargaining Incentive draft legislation that has been released today and participate in the consultation ahead of its introduction to the parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBig tech platforms make massive profits from ripping off the content of journalists and creators, but they are also making billions from monetising the personal data of Australians and shifting profits offshore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBillion-dollar tech corporations are exploiting loopholes and shifting profits offshore, and Australians are rightly asking why they\u2019re getting away with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time to end the free ride for Tech billionaires and impose a proper and enforceable tax on big tech.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCompanies that trade in Australia should pay tax on the money they make in Australia. It\u2019s as simple as that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNew reports show that in the last year alone, Meta generated around $1.7 billion in revenue from Australia, but shifted roughly $1.5 billion offshore. That\u2019s about 87 cents in every dollar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the same period, Amazon generated close to $6 billion in Australian revenue, Google approximately $2 billion, and Meta itself billions more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is tens of billions of dollars out of the pockets of everyday Australian users,  being sent immediately offshore by these massive corporations without any contribution to Australian taxes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey are gaming the system and ripping Australian households off. The community has had a gutful and want the system fixed.      <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time the tech bros paid their fair share back to Australians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA Digital Services Tax would raise approximately $11.5 billion according to the Parliamentary Budget Office, which could be invested in real cost of living relief as Aussies struggle through the economic crisis caused by Donald Trump\u2019s war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA Big Tech Tax is a crucial first step in reining in the enormous power these companies wield. Not only are they making extraordinary profits, they are also harvesting and monetising the personal data of millions of Australians, while ripping off the work of Australian journalists and creators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese foreign-owned corporations continue to make huge profits from Australians while resisting regulation at every turn. That has to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNow more than ever Australia needs to stand up for our national interest against Donald Trump\u2019s billionaire oligarchs like Zuckerberg, Musk and Bezos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Greens are today calling on the Government to introduce a \u2018Big Tech Tax\u2019 following revelations that billions of dollars generated in Australia by global tech giants like Meta, Amazon and Google are being shipped offshore.  Greens spokesperson for communications, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young:\u00a0 \u201cBig tech companies make billions of dollars off Australians and it\u2019s time to … Continue reading “Big tech must pay its fair share: Greens”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38657,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38656\/revisions\/38657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}