BIG TECH
Brazil’s government weighs taxing Big Tech. How would it work?
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The Brazilian government is once again considering introducing a tax on digital services, as trade and political tensions with US President Donald Trump escalate.
Since last year, the Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva administration has talked about implementing a digital services tax modeled after policies adopted by France and the United Kingdom. At the time, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad described the move as an assertion of national sovereignty and a response to global debates at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)…
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