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Uncertain future for Australian tax rules targeting Big Tech, amid Trump tariffs

By James Panichi ( April 9, 2025, 08:01 GMT | Comment) -- Australian political leaders have made a strategic decision to downplay plans to pressure Big Tech into paying local media publishers for the use of news content. There are good reasons for this: neither Prime Minister Anthony Albanese nor Peter Dutton, the leader of the center-right opposition, want to draw attention to policy that the US government may view as a tariff in all but name. Yet the leaders’ attempt to fly beneath the radar has raised doubts about whether the News Bargaining Incentive will ever get off the ground.There’s a reason why the Australian government’s renewed attempt to force Google, Meta Platforms and other digital players to pay for media content hasn’t featured prominently in an otherwise heated election campaign over the past few weeks....

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