{"id":5784,"date":"2010-01-08T15:12:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T13:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=5784"},"modified":"2010-01-08T15:12:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T13:12:04","slug":"french-plotting-google-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/01\/08\/french-plotting-google-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"French plotting &#8220;Google&#8221; tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accountancyage.com\/accountancyage\/news\/2255805\/french-plotting-google-tax\">French plotting \"Google\" tax - Accountancy Age<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<blockquote><p>Plans are in the pipeline for France to hit internet search providers with a tax on advertising revenue.<\/p>\n<p>The sweeping proposal, which would affect internet giants such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! every time a French net surfer clicked on an advertisement or sponsored link, was floated in a government-commissioned survey.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px;\">Guillaume Cerutti, one of the authors of the report said the tax would put an end to \"enrichment without any limit or compensation\", <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/google\/6947706\/France-plans-Google-tax-on-internet-searches.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Daily Telegraph<\/a> said.<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/04\/19\/googles-tax\/\" target=\"_blank\">my work<\/a> showing Google pays little or no tax outside the USA has given rise to this, that's very good news.<\/p>\n<p>Tax avoidance does not pay is the right message to deliver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French plotting &#8220;Google&#8221; tax &#8211; Accountancy Age. Plans are in the pipeline for France to hit internet search providers with a tax on advertising revenue.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/01\/08\/french-plotting-google-tax\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporation-tax","category-tax-avoidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}