Some Countries Move on Digital Taxes Despite Talks, U.S. Threats

A handful of countries have already imposed or plan to levy digital taxes on large tech companies over the next year or so, even as the OECD tries to get them to unite under a common approach.

They’re doing so despite U.S. threats of retaliation—U.S. tech companies like Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc., and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are prime targets of the taxes.

Austria and Turkey are levying digital taxes on tech companies as soon as next month.

In France, which ignited threats of U.S. trade retaliation with its own 3% tax last year, authorities have agreed to suspend collection until ...