On 30 October 2014, Spain's Congress approved a law allowing news publishers to charge online news aggregation systems (like Google News) every time a link and a meaningful description of a publisher's news article is posted. Spain will then tax those revenues. The charge and tax would not apply to news articles published by individual users sharing on social media.
The new law applies from 1 January 2015, although the exact rate of tax that will be levied has not yet been disclosed.