Turkey
Wants to Tax
Facebook and Twitter
In a new stage in Turkey's strife against U.S. social media companies, the Turkish government **w
Wants Twitter and
Facebook to pay taxes to its treasury — despite the fact that neither have an ****** in Turkey.
All social media companies that do business in
Turkey should pay taxes to the Turkish Government and have an ****** in the country, said Turkey's Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek in a press conference on Tuesday, according to
news reports
His remarks came just a couple of days after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused
Twitter of being a "tax evader."
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