Facebook varsler ny struktur som kan bety mer skatt: Vil legge deler av omsetningen til lokale selskaper

Facebook varslet tirsdag endringer som kan føre til en helt annen skattlegging av selskapets inntekter:

I dag knyttes i praksis all omsetning til Dublin, og gjennom noen omveier i Europa blir annonseomsetningen nesten ikke skattlagt.

I en melding fra finansdirektør Dave Wehner opplyser selskapet at all omsetning hvor et lokalt salgskontor har vært involvert, skal registreres i det enkelte selskaps hjemland.

Det var DN.no som omtalte saken først. 

Endringen kan blant annet bety at omsetning fra Facebooks norske salgskontor gjennom storkunder og mediebyråer nå blir registrert i et norsk foretak - og dermed potensielt også skattet av her.

Slik lyder meldingen fra Facebook:

Moving to a Local Selling Model

Today we are announcing that Facebook has decided to move to a local selling structure in countries where we have an office to support sales to local advertisers. In simple terms, this means that advertising revenue supported by our local teams will no longer be recorded by our international headquarters in Dublin, but will instead be recorded by our local company in that country.

We believe that moving to a local selling structure will provide more transparency to governments and policy makers around the world who have called for greater visibility over the revenue associated with locally supported sales in their countries.

It is our expectation that we will make this change in countries where we have a local office supporting advertisers in that country. That said, each country is unique, and we want to make sure we get this change right. This is a large undertaking that will require significant resources to implement around the world. We will roll out new systems and invoicing as quickly as possible to ensure a seamless transition to our new structure. We plan to implement this change throughout 2018, with the goal of completing all offices by the first half of 2019.

Our headquarters in Menlo Park, California, will continue to be our US headquarters and our offices in Dublin will continue to be the site of our international headquarters.