What Are the Digital Services Taxes Drawing Trump’s Ire?

Digital services taxes targeting the revenue of big technology companies have returned as a flash point in President Donald Trump’s efforts to rewrite the rules of global trade.

Trump has long argued that these levies are discriminatory against US tech giants like Amazon.com Inc., Google owner Alphabet Inc. and Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. During his first term as president, Trump threatened to use tariffs to punish countries imposing digital taxes. Now that he’s back in office, tensions have flared again over who gets to tax the world’s largest firms, and how.