France will denounce Google and Apple for abusive business practices

The French Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, made an announcement this Wednesday that the government of that country will make a demand to the companies Google and Apple for the realization of abusive business practices with other companies.

In an interview with the RTL radio station, Le Maire denounced that the conditions imposed by these internet giants on other companies that develop programs or applications, or that use their platforms, "are unacceptable."

The complaint will be submitted to the Commercial Court of Paris for "abusive business practices".

The minister complained that Google and Apple not only impose tariffs on emerging companies that create programs and applications for their platforms, but recover data from them and "can unilaterally modify contracts."

"There are rules, justice, and everyone must respect them," he stressed.

Along with this legal action in the French field, Le Maire recalled that his government is working internationally to establish rules that oblige the Internet giants to pay taxes wherever they do business.

And he was convinced: "We will achieve it by the end of 2018 to be applied in Europe at the beginning of 2019."

The French proposal, in this regard, is to establish a fiscal device for digital companies "based on their billing in each country", to avoid that they only pay in the State in which they set their headquarters looking for the one in which the taxation is more favorable.

A Google spokesman told Efe that they have collaborated with the French authorities in the investigations of "the last years" and defended that their practices comply with the legislation of the European nation.