Google Tax.................

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First France comes up with the bright idea of it being against the law to yell at your spouse, now they wanna tax users of Google. :eek:

We are in a serious National Crisis here folks!!!!

PARIS (Reuters) — France could start taxing Internet advertising revenues from online giants such as Google, using the funds to support creative industries that have been hit by the digital revolution, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

The proposal, put forward in a government-commissioned survey, is France’s latest challenge to the virtual free-for-all for Internet content. The country has previously caused controversy with some of the world’s harshest laws on online piracy.

The levy, which would also apply to other operators such as MSN and Yahoo, would put an end to “enrichment without any limit or compensation,” newspaper Liberation quoted Guillaume Cerutti, one of the authors of the report, as saying.

It would apply even if the operator had its offices outside France, as long as the Internet users who click on ad banners or sponsored links are here, the paper said.

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