The European Commission stands ready to support Member States facing U.S. investigations as a result of their national taxes on digital services, said Benjamin Angel, Director of Direct Taxation at the Commission's Directorate General for Taxation and Customs Union (DG TAXUD), on Thursday 7 January.
The day before, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) had in fact ruled that the digital services tax introduced by Italy, as well as those introduced by India and Turkey,...