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French digital service tax harms global tax reform: US tech leaders

By Jonas Ekblom and David Shepardson

Aug 20 2019 1:00PM

"Harmful to digital economy."

French digital service tax harms global tax reform: US tech leaders

Major tech firms and US tech industry groups said on Monday 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 Monday against the tax at a ...

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