France pursues a new tax on large tech firms, despite the threat of a U.S. trade investigation
PARIS—France’s legislature gave final approval to a new tax on large tech companies like Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Amazon.com Inc., shrugging off the threat posed by a new U.S. trade probe into whether the measure discriminates against American firms.
France’s Senate gave a voice vote to approve the new tax, the first in a series of proposed national taxes on digital services being debated across Europe. The vote came just hours after U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said his office would investigate the tax under...
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