Macron says France and US reached digital tax deal

26 Aug, 2019

US President Donald Trump had threatened to hit back with tariff action after France passed a law earlier this year that would impose a 3% tax on revenues earned on digital services in France.

Macron told reporters that companies that pay the tax would be able to deduct the amount once a new international deal on how to tax internet companies is found next year.

"We've done a lot a work on the bilateral basis, we have a deal to overcome the difficulties between us," Macron told reporters, speaking alongside US President Donald Trump at the end of a G7 summit in southwestern France.

Copyright Reuters, 2019

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