Wednesday 14 March 2018

Liability: France to Take Action v. Google, Apple for Commercial Practices - Bloomberg

France to Take Action v. Google, Apple for Commercial Practices - Bloomberg: "Le Maire’s office said an investigation by the ministry’s fraud office determined that between 2015 and 2017 there were “significant imbalances” in the relationship between the two companies and developers who sold via their application stores. The findings of a similar probe into Amazon.com Inc. last year are being reviewed by a tribunal, his office said. Le Parisien reported last December that the Finance Ministry is seeking to fine Amazon 10 million euros ($12.4 billion).

France has had a complicated relationship with Internet giants, on the one hand courting them to set up operations in the country and on the other hand leading efforts at the European Union level to force them to pay more taxes in the countries where they operate, rather than in low-tax countries such as Ireland and Luxembourg where they’ve based their European subsidiaries." 'via Blog this'

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