Tech Firms Taxed for Being Non-European

Itâ??s no day at the plage operating a giant, successful, multinational American company, once youâ??ve run up against some very un-American notions about tax policy from abroad. Such as the â??data taxâ? on Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, about to be proposed by France for adoption by the European Union.
 
Apparently, France would like to impose a data transmission tax on those companies -- and only those companies -- because they are the dominant platforms for Internet usage in Europe just as they are in the US, but they are â??non-European,â? that is, American.