France Sticks With Digital Tax Until a US Pact, Possibly in 2020
President Emmanuel Macron said that the U.S. and France agreed to work together to reach an agreement in 2020 on modernizing the international tax rules. Macron told reporters Monday his nation's 3 percent digital services tax isn't designed to punish…
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large companies. Rather, he said, "it's to fix the problem. And there are also plenty of French companies that will be touched." The U.S. is treating the tax as thinly disguised protectionism, and has opened an investigation (see 1908190043). Macron said that the French tax will be in place until an international pact. He said that if collections under the tax are higher than are eventually agreed to, the excess will be refunded. Senate Finance Committee ranking member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., in a statement said the "Trump administration should reject any deal that allows France and other countries to move ahead with discriminatory taxes on U.S. technology companies, in exchange for vague promises." President Donald Trump, also at the G-7 conference, didn't provide more specifics, and the French Embassy in Washington had no further comment.