Huawei’s mobile equipment gradually being replaced with Nokia equivalent in EU

According to two sources close to the matter at hand, telecom operators Orange Belgium and Proximus plan on replacing Huawei’s mobile equipment in Belgium and Luxembourg with Nokia equivalent. The development comes with growing recognition of U.S. accusations that Huawei’s telecom gear could be used for economic and military espionage purposes by Beijing. Both Nokia…

France and the United States hammer out a draft agreement on French digital tax

U.S. tech giants such as Google, Amazon and Facebook routinely generate huge profits from digital services in countries but route the profits through low-tax countries, such as Ireland and Luxembourg, in order to lower their tax profile in the country from which they had generated their revenues. France’s proposal to rectify this anomaly had unnerved…

The EU surges ahead in its bid to find a common tax base across its member states

With the world’s richest nations dragging their feet on ways to find a common solutions on how to tax digital companies, including Facebook and Google, the European Commission has surged ahead in a bid to block some of the world’s wealthiest companies to exploit existing tax regulations to their favor. On Tuesday, U.S. companies operating…