Tech Groups Highlight Digital Taxes Outside Scope of U.S. Probe

The U.S. trade investigation into 10 digital taxes leaves out even more national measures, including in Belgium and Kenya, business groups said.

The U.S. Trade Representative’s office announced in June it was opening Section 301 investigations into proposed or enacted digital tax measures in Austria, Brazil, the Czech Republic, the EU, India, Indonesia, Italy, Spain, Turkey, and the U.K.

The measures seek to tax the revenues of tech giants, many of which are U.S.-based. A growing number of countries are taking up such taxes because they say the traditional global tax rules—which give countries taxing rights over profits connected ...