Tech companies to USTR: French digital services tax undermines OECD efforts

The United States’ leading technology companies -- including Google, Amazon and Facebook and others -- told a panel of government officials on Monday that France’s digital services tax could undermine efforts to find a multilateral solution and cost businesses millions of dollars as they try to comply with a law they say is a logistical nightmare. Tech representatives testified on Monday in front of an interagency panel set up by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to inform its...