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Last Thursday, the French Senate passed a digital services tax, which would impose an entirely new tax on large multinationals that provide digital services to consumers or users in France. Digital services include everything from providing a platform for selling goods and services online to targeting advertising based on user data, and the tax applies to gross revenue from such services. Many French politicians and media outlets have referred to this as a 'GAFA tax', meaning that it is designed to apply primarily to companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon-in other words, multinational tech companies based in the United States. The digital services tax now awaits the signature of President Emmanuel Macron, who has expressed support for the measure, and it could go into effect within the next few weeks. But it has already sparked significant controversy, with the United States trade representative opening an investigation into whether the tax discriminates against American companies, which in turn could lead to trade sanctions against France. The French tax is not just a unilateral move by one country in need of revenue. Instead, the digital services tax is part of a much larger trend, with countries over the past few years proposing or putting in place an alphabet soup of new international tax provisions. These have included Britain's DPT (diverted profits tax), Australia's MAAL (multinational antiavoidance law), and India's SEP (significant economic presence) test, to name but a few. At the same time, the European Union, Spain, Britain and several other countries have all seriously contemplated digital services taxes. These unilateral developments differ in their specifics, but they are all designed to tax multinationals on income and revenue that countries believe they should have a right to tax, even if international tax rules do not grant them that right. In other words, they all share a view that the international tax system has failed to keep up with the current economy. In response to these many unilateral measures, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is currently working with 131 countries to reach a consensus by the end of 2020 on an international solution. Both France and the United States are involved in the organization's work, but France's digital services tax and the American response raise questions about what the future holds for the international tax system. France's planned tax is a clear warning: Unless a broad consensus can be reached on reforming the international tax system, other nations are likely to follow suit, and American companies will face a cascade of different taxes from dozens of nations that will prove burdensome and costly.
单选题
The French Senate has passed a bill to ______.
单选题
The countries adopting the unilateral measures share the opinion that ______.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】 事实细节题。题干问的是采取单边措施的国家持什么观点。根据题干中的关键词unilateral和share the opinion可以定位到原文第四段。该段提到,这些国家认为它们应该有征税的权利,即使国际税收规定没有授予它们这种权利。换句话说,它们都认为,国际税收体系未能跟上当前经济的发展。由此可知,当前的国际税收体系需要升级。故答案为B(当前的国际税收体系需要升级)。 文中只是说要收税,并没有提到要对科技巨头的收益进行重新分配,因此A项(必须确保重新分配科技巨头的收益)与原文内容不符,故排除。C项(应该阻止跨国公司的垄断)原文未提及,故排除。文中只是说这些国家认为它们应该有征税的权利,并没有说所有国家应该享受平等的征税权利,因此D项(所有国家都应该享受平等的征税权利)属于过度推理,故排除。
单选题
It can be learned from Paragraph 5 that the OECD's current work ______.