Amazon and Starbucks 'pay less tax than a sausage stand', Austria says

Centre-left politician also criticises Google and Facebook and complains that EU states with low-tax regimes have lured multinationals

Multinational companies including Amazon and Starbucks pay less tax in Austria than one of the country's tiny sausage stands, the republic's centre-left chancellor lamented in an interview published on Friday.

Chancellor Christian Kern, head of the Social Democrats and of the centrist coalition government, also criticised internet giants Google and Facebook, saying that if they paid more tax subsidies for print media could increase.