Tech Firms, Industry Groups Criticize France's New Digital Services Tax

Major tech firms and U.S. tech industry groups said that France’s new digital services tax undermines the global tax regime and multilateral efforts to reform it. Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Facebook Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. and major trade associations testified against the tax at a hearing before the U.S. Trade Representative’s office and other government officials.

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