Economics
France to Go Ahead With Digital Tax, Risking U.S. Tariffs
- Le Maire says France will resume collecting tax in December
- U.S. has lined up retaliatory tariffs for early January
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France will go ahead with plans to collect its contentious digital services tax mid-December, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said, keeping Europe on course for a trade battle with the U.S. over the taxation of tech giants like Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google.