US Must Reopen Trade Probe Into French Digital Tax, GOP Says

Nov. 26, 2025, 2:57 AM UTC

A group of Republican lawmakers on Tuesday called for the Trump administration to reopen its trade investigation into a French tax on digital services.

“This is not a routine French tax matter; it is a targeted escalation against American businesses,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter addressed to President Donald Trump shared with Bloomberg Tax.

The French National Assembly in October passed a measure to increase the country’s digital services tax to 6% from 3% as part of a 2026 budget bill The measure also changed the scope of the tax to apply to companies with €2 billion ($2.3 billion) ...

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