France's new 'internet tax', which was meant to stop tech giants from sending huge amounts of data to your smartphone, has been killed off
- French deputies voted 11 to 10 to tax content providers €0.055 for every gigabyte sent to French internet subscribers
- Backers claim €10 billion a year in taxes, but the government disputes both the figure and whether traffic can be measured fairly
- Five days later, the Assembly rejected the budget's whole revenue section 458 to 0, wiping out the tax with it
France's lower house had voted to charge content companies for every gigabyte they deliver to French internet users - but the measure lasted only five days before it was shot down unanimously.
Deputies rejected the revenue half of the 2027 budget by a vote of 458 to 0, LCP reported.
Every amendment adopted during three weeks of debate fell with it, including the per-gigabyte levy; this means that what now goes to the Senate is the government's original bill, which never contained it to begin with.
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