France tells Trump: Don't mix digital taxes and wine tariffs
1 / 2U.S. President Trump sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office at the White House in WashingtonPARIS - Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Saturday that France would proceed with taxing revenues of big technology firms and urged the United States not to bring trade tariffs into the debate on how to fairly raise levies on digital services.
"It's in our interest to have a fair digital tax," Le Maire told reporters, speaking in English."Please do not mix the two issues. The key question now is how we can we get consensus on fair taxation of digital activities." Other European Union countries, including Austria, Britain, Spain and Italy, have also announced plans for their own digital taxes.
"They shouldn't have done this," Trump told reporters on Friday."I told them, I said, 'Don't do it because if you do it, I'm going to tax your wine.'"
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