{"rewrite":{"id":"r_aebbab4278fe5153160a7e43","clusterId":"c_ac0ac65bf7013ae3da0cce24","slug":"french-assembly-passes-data-traffic-tax-on-google-meta-netflix","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"French Assembly Passes Data Traffic Tax On Google, Meta, Netflix","summary":"France's National Assembly passed amendment I-1358 on October 30, 2026, introducing a tax on content providers based on the data they send to users in France. Set at 0.055 euros per GB, it is projected to raise 10 billion euros a year. The amendment names Google, Meta, Amazon, Netflix and Akamai as targets, and the French government opposes it.","whyItMatters":"The bill puts the tax burden on content providers rather than users or telecom operators, which makes traffic volume itself the taxable event and hands the collection role to the ISPs that measure it.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe amendment passed the plenary session by 11 votes in favor, 10 against and 14 abstentions, after the Finance Committee rejected it on October 9. Socialist Party deputy Laurent Lhardit submitted it as part of the 2027 budget bill.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollection runs through telecom operators, which report quarterly on the volume of data crossing their networks and the companies sending it. The measure caps the tax at 15 percent of a company\u0026#39;s sales in France or 2 percent of worldwide sales, and it counts data sent from CDN servers, so rerouting delivery does not avoid the charge.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe French government opposes the bill, according to the report, even though the Assembly has now passed it.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"The 0.055 euro per GB rate lands on Google, Meta, Netflix and Amazon as content senders, and the French government opposes its own assembly's amendment. Whoever writes the final text decides whether that rate survives intact.","twitterPost":"Google, Meta and Netflix would pay 0.055 euros per GB sent into France, and the French government opposes the amendment its own assembly passed.","threadsPost":"The French Assembly set the rate at 0.055 euros per GB and named Google, Meta, Amazon, Netflix and Akamai as the payers. The French government opposes the amendment, so the fight now moves to whether that number and those names survive the final text.","newsletterBlurb":"France's National Assembly passed amendment I-1358, a tax on content providers based on the data they send to users in France at 0.055 euros per GB. The bill names Google, Meta, Amazon, Netflix and Akamai as targets and projects 10 billion euros a year. 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