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11:39 13th January 2010
The French government may be planning to tax search engine giant Google but that poses problems, according to Andreas Pouros, chief operations officer for search engine marketing agency Greenlight.
"Taxing an entity that isn't based in the country... levying the tax is incredibly problematic," Mr Pouros said.
He went on to say that UK companies do not need to worry because "if by some bizarre series of events France does indeed levy such a tax, I don't envisage the UK would follow suit, at the very least due to its commercial and political ties with the US".
His views emerged as media reports said the French government may introduce a 'Google tax' to cream funds off the profits generated by the search giant.
The tax would be levied on firms whose primary place of business was the internet, such as Google, Yahoo! and Facebook, the reports also said.
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