Europe turns on Facebook, Google and other US tech titans for digital tax revamp
EU leaders seek to change tax rules which are designed for yesterday's economy
Brussels
THEY have revolutionised the way we live, but are US tech giants the new robber barons of the 21st century, banking billions in profit while short-changing the public by paying only a pittance in tax?
With public coffers still strained years after the worst of the debt crisis, EU leaders have agreed to tackle the question, spurred on by French President Emmanuel Macron who has slammed the likes of Google, Facebook and Apple as the "freeloaders of the modern world".
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