Debate Heats Up Over How Countries Tax Big Tech Companies

Debate Heats Up Over How Countries Tax Big Tech Companies
The apps for Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple with the reflection of a binary code are displayed on a tablet screen in Paris on April 20, 2018. Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images
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FRANKFURT, Germany—An international debate over how countries tax big U.S. technology companies such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook is heating up, presenting a challenge for President Joe Biden’s new administration.

A mid-year deadline is on the horizon for talks about a global deal to defuse trade disputes with France and other countries that are imposing go-it-alone digital taxes that the United States views as discriminatory.