A global pandemic and parliamentary closures haven’t stopped efforts by European countries to impose digital services taxes on large tech companies such as Facebook Inc. and Google.
After a month-long hiatus, U.K. lawmakers on Monday moved the country’s digital services tax one step closer to becoming law, with all the major parties in Parliament approving the measure’s passage.
Similar efforts are underway in the Czech Republic, Spain, Poland, and several other European countries. The effort is driven by concerns that multinationals, especially tech giants, aren’t paying taxes in the countries where they have customers and users.
The unilateral measures could ...
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