US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is urging countries like France to suspend taxes on global computing giants such as Google and Amazon and wait for a negotiated agreement on international taxation, according to a letter released Wednesday.
As the United States is poised to impose tariffs of up to 100% on US$2.4bil in French products over that country's digital services tax, Mnuchin said talks in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development are key to resolving the issue.
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