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Zuckerberg Endorses Global Tax on Tech Giants

By Alex Heath
· · Source: The Information

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has endorsed a global tax plan proposed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The OECD’s plan would change how multinational companies are taxed by having them pay more in countries where they have a significant number of customers, rather than where they develop products or merely have local operations. For Facebook, with over 2 billion users...

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