France to impose digital tax on big tech cos like Google, Facebook, Apple despite US retaliation threat
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France has said that it will impose new "digital tax" on online technology giants for their 2020 earnings, despite a retaliatory threat from US, impacting US firms Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. Washington, it has been learnt, has warned that it could retaliate with new tariffs on French imports. An AFP report quoting a French ministry official has said that the "companies subject to this tax have been notified.