The Republic would oppose a European Union tax on US technology companies in any escalation of a trade war between the union and the United States, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said in an interview with The Irish Times Inside Politics podcast.
Asked about a warning from European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on Friday that the EU could hit the big tech firms such as Meta, Google and Facebook with a special tax – “a levy on the advertising revenues of digital services” – as part of “retaliatory measures” if trade negotiations failed, Mr Martin responded: “We would resist that.”
He added that it would cause damage to “a significant sector” in the State.
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