What is a digital services tax, and why is Trump against it?
Briefly

President Donald Trump threatened to raise tariffs on countries that impose digital services taxes, contending such taxes discriminate against major U.S. technology companies by taxing a percentage of their local earnings. Most digital services taxes apply to any tech company earning above a jurisdictional threshold, regardless of nationality. The U.S. government opposes such taxes and views them as harmful to Silicon Valley firms including Google, Apple, Meta and Amazon. Canada recently repealed its version of a digital services tax. Digital services taxes aim to recoup tax revenue lost as commerce and advertising shift online by taxing gross revenue rather than physical presence-based profits.
Digital Taxes, Digital Services Legislation, and Digital Markets Regulations are all designed to harm, or discriminate against, American Technology,
Think about big tech companies like Google, Facebook and Apple - they're everywhere, but they don't have factories or warehouses ... And in the old days, we wouldn't tax [a company] unless they came to the country,
Read at The Washington Post
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