{"id":29656,"date":"2025-08-28T23:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/29656\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T23:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:44:08","slug":"donald-trumps-threats-over-digital-taxes-came-days-after-lobbying-by-mark-zuckerberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/29656\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s threats over digital taxes came days after lobbying by Mark Zuckerberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Reuters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/d1b6df54-1639-4bdd-8dfb-e3e6db4b8969.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p>Riley Griffin and Jennifer A Dlouhy<\/p>\n<p>BloombergYesterday at 20:40<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">US president Donald Trump threatened to inflict &#8220;substantial&#8221; tariffs on countries that impose digital taxes just days after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg raised concerns about the levies during a White House meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Facebook co-founder visited Mr Trump late last week, according to people familiar with the private meeting, who asked not to be named as the details aren&#8217;t public. During the meeting, one of the people said, Mr Trump and Mr Zuckerberg discussed the threat of digital service taxes, which are imposed on the revenue that tech companies get from users in a particular country. Meta generates the vast majority of its revenue through advertising targeted at Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Reuters Riley Griffin and Jennifer A Dlouhy BloombergYesterday at 20:40 US president Donald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,356,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,1721,1722,5,1255,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-29656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-mark-zuckerberg","19":"tag-meta","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-tariffs","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories","24":"tag-world","25":"tag-world-news","26":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}