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USTR Says Austrian, Spanish, British DSTs Discriminate Against American Companies

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative released three more reports on Digital Services Taxes, covering those in Austria, Spain and the United Kingdom, and finding that each one discriminates against U.S. firms and burdens U.S. commerce. All the countries…

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designed the taxes so that they were more likely to hit American internet giants and not domestic firms. As it did in earlier reports, USTR makes no recommendations about what the government should do to convince these countries not to apply extraterritorial taxes on companies like Facebook or Google, often on revenue rather than profits.