Digital Tax Impasse Pushing More Countries to Go It Alone (1)

The idea of taxing the revenue of tech giants like Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Facebook Inc. is taking root in more countries—Poland and the Czech Republic being the latest—as they rush to develop their own plans in the absence of a global consensus.

Countries have become increasingly impatient to adopt unilateral tax measures after efforts to pass a European Union-wide digital tax stalled this year. And a promised Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development global solution is at least a year away, if a consensus can be reached.

Tax administrations planning to impose the new measures say the likes of ...