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ECIPE's Bauer says French digital tax mostly taxes France itself

ECIPE's Matthias Bauer argues in an insight that France's digital services tax, framed as taxing US platforms, is chiefly passed through to French advertisers, retailers and app developers, calling it a self-inflicted cost dressed as strategic autonomy.

Verified Opinion AI-drafted ECIPE insight, June 2026

What it does not test. Does not measure the tax's real incidence; the pass-through claim is the author's own analysis, not a government or independent audit.

How this item counts. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. Opinion; moves no question; scale reflects a single member state tax dispute. European Sovereignty Index

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. How the record is made

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