As the French government casts about for revenues to address its budget deficit, parliamentarians are considering an amendment (I-735) to the 2025 budget to raise the Digital Services Tax (DST) from 3% to 5%, purportedly raising €500 million. Increasing the DST rate seems bound to ...
France--New Digital Services Tax: Potential Tax Treaty and EU Law IssuesGouthière, BrunoInternational Tax Journal
WASHINGTON, July 26 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday denounced France for its recently passed digital services tax law, and threatened "a substantial reciprocal action." "France just put a digital tax on our great American technology companies. If anybody taxes them, it shoul...
PARIS, July 26 (Xinhua) -- French Minister of the Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire said on Friday that a digital tax on internet giants was "a national decision" that the government would enact, defying a U.S. threat of "substantial reciprocal action." "The taxation of digital activitie...
France has approved a 3% tax on the French revenues of multinational tech giants, such as Amazon , Facebookand Google. The French senate approved the new digital services tax on Thursday, a day after US President Trump ordered an investigation into France’s planned digital tax. ...
France has approved a digital services tax despite threats of retaliation by the US, which argues that it unfairly targets American tech giants. 译文 法国目前通过了一项数字服务行业的税收法案,但却受到美国的报复性威胁,因为其认为这一法案针对美国的...
released its own draft proposal for a 2% digital services tax. The national proposals come after an EU-wide effort to pass a digital tax on corporations failed last year, thanks to resistance from countries like Ireland and the Netherlands. Some experts fear France's unilateral approach with ...
French Finance Minister Bruno LeMaire announced this week that Paris would impose a digital services tax (DST) effective January 1, 2019. LeMaire and other French officials have argued that such a measure would help to ensure that large digital services providers, which happen to be American compa...
, which in turn could lead to trade sanctions against France. The French tax is not just a unilateral move by one country in need of revenue. Instead, the digital services tax is part of a much larger trend, with countries over the past few years proposing or putting in place an ...
Several governments have either already introduced or plan to introduce their own digital services tax. They argue that tech companies pay too little tax on the profits they make in many countries, partly because they record them in low-tax jurisdictions such as Ireland. ...