France plans to negotiate a digital tax with the Biden government

France plans to negotiate a digital tax with the Biden government

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire plans to call, as part of his first contacts with the new administration of US presidential election winner Joe Biden, to urgently support a review of international taxation of digital companies. "I really hope that this new Biden administration will mark a new beginning in relations between Europe and the United States," he told Bloomberg in an online event. According to him, one of the possibilities for a new beginning could be to reach an early consensus at the level of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Le Maire added that he would discuss the global economy and trade with the new administration in the first contacts. However, negotiations through the OECD on a global solution for taxing digital services have so far yielded no results. In September, Le Maire proposed that the European Union (EU) introduce its own digital tax if an international agreement was not reached in the OECD in the coming months. France is a leading supporter of the introduction of this tax throughout the Union. Some internet giants are used by low-tax EU countries, such as Ireland, where they register their official seat and pay only a minimal tax, and only in that country, despite generating huge profits in other bloc states. Paris therefore proposes that multinational corporations with huge incomes pay a tax up to a certain amount in all markets where they have made huge profits.