Uber, Airbnb get dragged into Scandinavian welfare economics


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 10 Oct 2017

(FILES) This file photo taken on April 21, 2015 shows the logo of online lodging service Airbnb displayed on a computer screen in the Airbnb offices in Paris on April 21, 2015. For the last six months, 31 owners were sentenced by a French court to pay 615.000 euros of fine, said Ian Brossat, deputy mayor of Paris, charged with Housing and Emergency Accomodation. / AFP PHOTO / MARTIN BUREAU

Denmark wants to bring the so-called sharing economy into its legal codex so that companies like Uber and Airbnb can be absorbed into the Scandinavian welfare model. 

The Danish government sees little point in resisting the changes these companies represent. Instead, it’s putting forward a number of measures designed to fold the business concept into its tax and labour laws. 

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