Multiple countries have proposed ‘digital service taxes’ which are taxes on the domestic use of American tech platforms like META, Twitter, Amazon etc. EU countries are planning to tax U.S. based tech platforms for the revenues generated by operations within EU countries.
President Trump announces retaliatory action via reciprocity taxes, in essence leveraging the entirety of the U.S. consumer market, if the EU proceed with this new tax revenue scheme against U.S. companies. Canada was on the cusp of a digital services tax last year when Trump made a similar announcement forcing Canada to abandon the plan.
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WASHINGTON DC – […] Trump’s promise to raise tariffs threatens to complicate trade talks with the European Union. Trump’s threat comes one day after EU member states approved an agreement that would slash tariffs on U.S. industrial goods and some agricultural products. In return, the U.S. would cap most tariffs on the European Union at 15 percent.
Outside of proposed taxes, the EU has in place various measures designed to crack down on outsized influence from big tech companies, such as the Digital Markets Act, which allows regulators to set strict operating rules and fine large platforms.
In a statement, the European Commission defended its “sovereign right” to regulate its own economic activity.
“Unilateral measures targeting such legitimate policies are unjustified. If pursued, the EU will respond swiftly and decisively to defend its rights and regulatory autonomy,” it said. “The EU has consistently supported a global solution to the fair taxation of the digital economy, in line with the G7 finance ministers conclusions. That remains our preferred path, and we are ready to engage constructively to get there.” (read more)
EU really likes ‘taxation without representation’ schemes.
Everything without representation schemes, in my opinion.
The Eurotrash system is gasping for oxygen at this point. Volkswagen, the epitome of Germany’s industrial might, is laying off 100,000 workers.
Our POTUS recognized that production, particularly under the Hamiltonian model, is the ONLY lifeblood of Our USA.
The State produces NOTHING of marketable value. It exists to set the environment for its citizens to produce at their highest actualization of God’s Gifts.
The EU model was the bastard child of PAX AMERICANA. It sought to exploit the largess that Our United States brought to Europe under Lend-Lease and the Marshall Plan by establishing an overarching layer of governance reliant on bureaucracy, non accountability, and a complete divorce from the Divine Spirits of its forefathers.
Compare and contrast the Nipponese experience, where the US set the conditions for self determination, just like Europe. After WWII. Europe lost its rich, nationalistic cultural identies in favour of Socialism and Globalism.
Today, Europe is a Shiite Hole, and while Japan is also aging out, they still maintain their proud cultural and national sovereignty.
The EU is a Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone. It offers NO peace for the continent, because the US is that guarantor; It offers NO economic prosperity because it has abandoned any sustainable energy policies which drive industrial productivity; It offers NO security for the myriad rich cultural histories that are its lifeblood; and It offers NO HOPE for the affirmation of the Sovereign Individual under Our God’s Creation. 🙁
Oh, and for any viewers out there, the minute you see Man-Made Rules usurping Spirituality and our ability to employ morality in our individual decision-making and self determination as informed by Scripture, that is the tell that the Devil’s Work is in play!
Humans don’t do PERFECTION. That is Our Lord’s Province!!! 🙂
The argument could be made that Europe lost itself before WW2. Remember the Lend Lease Agreement in the early stages of the war.
Right, JC. Our biggest regret is we didn’t seek repayment of Lend-Lease from the Brits AND THE SOVIET UNION! The Marshall Plan sought to mitigate the lessons’ learned from the Treaty at Versailles…. 🙂
Yep and regarding your Japan point, their industrial base was destroyed and with our help and guidance they have become the powerful nation they are today and our best ally. All that while maintaining their Japanese identity.
I would argue that the Nipponese and Deutschlanders were two of the TOP THREE industrialized nations in the 1930’s. It is ingrained in their national experience and cultural identity… a combination of cultural unity, work ethic, affinity to hierarchy, and higher than most IQ’s per capita in their particular regions….
Of course topping them all was We The People and our “IT” factor: INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY (and rugged self-determination, creativity, imagination, boundless dreaming and determination, and manifest destiny). It is AMAZING what happens when humans are allowed to do what Our Lord intended! 🙂
So does the GOP
Yes, about 97 out of 100…
Don’t all liberals?
There is some sort of logic to their position. If a company earns income from sales in a country, shouldn’t it pay tax on those earnings from access to that country? It gets more complicated of course if you sell to more countries.
What is the tax situation on companies that are being forced by Pres Trump to set up shop in the USA? Do they pay tax in USA? Does anyone know?
It’s very difficult to discuss this as we don’t have all the facts.
They’re no better than the death cult Iranians wanting to charge tolls in international waters.
How does this fit in to all of that?
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Howard Lutnick
@howardlutnick
Europe just passed their historic legislation on the US-EU trade deal. Europe has reduced their tariffs to ZERO for the first time ever. This is a historic accomplishment for our great automakers, fishers, ranchers and so many producers who will finally have a level playing field when trading with Europe.
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The parasites are desperate for other people’s money.
If Kamala won we would be getting taxed under some crazy world commerce scheme that would make official what they’ve already been doing clandestinely…. forcing the US middle class to fund the rest of the world.
That level of taxation would have just become the new floor for our “fair share”, and would have only gone up with going all in on the ruinable energy, and social justice reparations ad infinitum.
were already funding fraud, terrorism, murder, theft, porn, graft, grift, extortion, counterfeiting, frame jobs, war, sloth, obesity, pandemics, brainwashing, psyops, child abuse, child trafficiking, prostitution, usury, orgies, and many other evils.
Under their scheme the middle class will disappear.
Meet the new peasant class.
Commies despise the middle class, calling them “petite bourgeois”.
Middle class is contrary to Commies theology of oppressed masses ruled by bourgeois capitalists. Better to crush the middle class and reduce them to poverty.
If that illiterate whore POS stoled the second election (the Dams/Rinos already stoled the 2020) there would’ve been a response from those standing in the brink that the Left, the clingers and the “Quakers aka fence sitters” could never understand. Stop dwelling on the negative BS.
President Trump won by a LANDSLIDE just like he did in 2020 when they stoled it. He and MAGA aren’t playing games with either group anymore.
Socialism here or there just will NEVER work!
I would differ in that socialism does work as intended as a means to attain power for a group of people to form an oligarchy and rule, which then enriches itself at everyone else’s expense.
It was never about benefiting the masses contrary to any slogan that promised such.
Invariably, a dictator will then rise taking power over that ruling class though force.
Well, any parasite worth its salt knows that the taxpayers of the United States have been financing parasites for a long time; it would pretty ignorant of them to ignore the potential.
Couldn’t love President Trump’s straight forward speaking any more than I do and always have.
Ain’t no playing around with this leader.
How does this work with all the stupid commie judge domestic rulings on tariffs?
They’ll be along any moment to try and thwart President Trump.
If he supports AMERICA they are AGAINST it!!!
He just stops the trade completely via the same case.
I am so glad we have an Eagle/Lion/Wolf in our White House, who puts the USA and its Citizens first in all dealings!
It isn’t just the EU planning a DST. The UN has their own plans, as well.
The UN is planning to tax ALL shipping by Air or Sea to “save the planet from global warming”.
“If implemented, the UN agency levies will raise global shipping and aviation costs, adding to inflation worldwide. Shipping produces just around 2 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, yet a UN tax on it would add costs to virtually every traded good. Shipping carries more than 80 per cent of global trade, a share expected to grow.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/22/united-nations-imo-taxes-unaccountable-shipping-aviation/
They expect to collect 13 Billion dollars per year in carbon offset purchases, alone.
PT should tell them to pound sand.
That is not even the half of the redicouslessness.
These grifters want the entire shipping industry to switch over to alternative fuel sources like ammonia which has serious problems over just using bunker fuel in international waters.
Take a guess who has the shipyard capacity to replace most of the world’s shipping fleets with “ecofriendly” and (less) efficient designs for a price?
Then the US should cut off all electricity and gas to the UN.
So if this UN shipping tax would actually get imposed, another tax would be imposed on individuals or small companies that ship (small) goods overseas?
Yet another bookkeeping headache that would need tending. And the UN would then have immediate access to sellers’ foreign sales info. Large and small companies and individuals alike. And then, would the UN be happy to share that info with other agencies, maybe for a processing fee from the requesting entity.
This is getting to be scary sh!t.
You want to tax digital companies ok then…pay for your own defense and we just leave nato
This digital services tax is not really a tax in the normal sense. It is a levy on pre-tax revenues rather than a tax on profits. In that sense it really is more like a tariff, even though they are supposedly now reducing their tariffs to zero. All they do is play games. You watch – if they drop the digital services tax they will reimpose some or all of their old tariffs. Most of the EU is going broke or already broke and they must get money from the outside somehow since they are not willing to make the changes needed to improve their economies and productivity.
the best outcome would actually be for europe to impose a DST and then for USA to impose a 100 % tax in european imports. lets just skip all the BS and just do that.
it is long past time for each country to be self sufficient and self contained. a monolithic human culture is not good for survival. we need real diversity.
Europe seems to want price war with USA. They import savages, deny free speech, and think they can also demand taxes on USA? What has happened to their minds?
Socialism happened.
Europe was never quite right after 1789. Sometimes better and more often not.
The precedent was set under little lord obungo.
F’ the E.U….
Thank you, Sundance!
Dear EU:
Abandon the Digital Services Tax Plan now… or else.
Europeans no longer control commerce on the seas of this world.
Not in the Panama Canal, coast of Venezuela, Strait of Oman, Gulf of America, etc., etc.
East India Company 2.0 is dead, dead, dead.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Your favorite customers
United States citizens
F Europe
Sure the EU has a sovereign right to do that and the US has the same rights to do the same.
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That EU noise just sounds like threatening a knife, with a spoon. (and it ain’t a grapefruit spoon) LOL
Europe is in the midst of a purposeful deconstruction. One has to demolish the old before building the new that in this case will be a 100% controlled area with no rights for civilians. One has to admit that the globalists in charge of this demolition are extremely capable. Flood Europe with the vermin classes of the world while feeding and housing them as they fearlessly rape the local women. Tax European industry into bankruptcy, cut off oil and gas from Russia and pour billions of Euros into the failing, totally corrupt country of Ukraine. Yes the globalists are extremely capable.
“ooh, fireworks!” aka Tweets and Truth Socials from President Trump. Winning.
How the globalists hate Trump!
He exposes their many weaknesses when everyone else shuts the f–k up about them for fear of offending the ruling classes.
He threatens them economically, using plain language, which these practitioners of obfuscation who regularly try to sell their pigs in pokes as filet mignon, cannot fathom and absolutely loathe!
They detest him for calling out their Godless secularism for what it is; hollow, vacuous and motivated only by self-aggrandizement and greed!
They can’t abode the fact that Trump draws ginormous crowds while nary a one of them can draw gnats in a vinegar jar!
But most of all they hate that he will win once again and ‘digital service taxes’ are DOA because of him!
Trump is Beautiful