France wants to tax from 2011 online advertising. The tax rate will be one per cent of the figure for net amount spent online advertising, according to a French Senate approved on Tuesday by the text of the law from which quoted the news agency to pay the tax but not the advertising service provider, but the company that switched to advertising. Paris justified this by saying that Internet companies like Google for tax purposes are not tangible, if you lay a firm outside of France.

"These companies are taxed where they have their seat, while they draw from a portion of our advertising market," President Nicolas Sarkozy had long been criticized. While the state levies on television advertising around 70 million € per year flow through to the new tax on online advertising to bring in 20 million euros annually up. Since the new provision is not in the National Assembly was advised of the still, it has to a mediation committee of the two chambers of parliament to pass first.