France government approves 3% tax on internet giants

Posted by beastibash on Thursday July 11, 2019 @12:37PM
from the techerati.com dept.

https://techerati.com/news-hub/france-approves-tax-on-big-tech-despite-us-threats/

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Re:France government approves 3% tax on internet giants by HissingMachine on Thursday July 11, 2019 @01:34PM (#20413542)

"The tech industry warns consumers could pay more."

Oh no, a cost increase on a free service?

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Re:France government approves 3% tax on internet giants by mateo411 on Thursday July 11, 2019 @04:05PM (#20415252)

I'm willing to pay 3% more.

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Re:France government approves 3% tax on internet giants by 100-xyz on Thursday July 11, 2019 @06:42PM (#20416562)

Each of us is seeing the emergence of economic giants with monopolistic attributes and who not only want to control a maximum amount of data and make money with this data but also go further than that by, in the absence of rules, escaping taxes and putting into place instruments that could, tomorrow, become a sovereign currency.

Very well said.

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