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US may impose tariffs on India, Italy for taxing internet firms like Google

The US will soon issue results of probes into Austria, Italy and India's decisions to tax local revenue of Internet companies such as Facebook Inc., which could pave the way for retaliatory tariffs

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Laura Davison and Jenny Leonard | Bloomberg
The U.S. will soon issue the results of probes into Austria, Italy and India’s decisions to tax local revenue of Internet companies such as Facebook Inc., which could pave the way for retaliatory tariffs, people familiar with the situation said.

Determinations on the three countries are due because all of them have instituted so-called digital services taxes -- or levies on local sales of companies such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google -- this year, said the people who couldn’t be identified because the information is private. There may also be findings on Indonesia, U.K. and Turkey, one of the people said.

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