10月7日：据《金融时报》周三报道，为增加欧盟财政收入并避免引发特朗普政府的强烈反对，布鲁塞尔正在考虑通过对大型企业征收普遍税项的方式来对美国大型科技公司实施征税。
Oct 7 : Brussels is considering taxing big US tech companies through a broad levy on large corporations in an effort to raise revenues for the EU while avoiding a backlash from the Trump administration, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
报道援引六位知情官员的话称，欧盟委员会正在研究新的征税方式，旨在从苹果、Meta和谷歌等科技企业获取更多收入，同时又不单独针对它们。
The European Commission was working on new ways to capture more income from tech groups such as Apple, Meta and Google without singling them out, the newspaper reported, citing six officials with knowledge of the discussions.
报道指出，布鲁塞尔正考虑对“欧洲企业资源计划”（CORE）提案进行修订，要求所有在欧盟境内运营且年收入超过1亿欧元（约合1.1232亿美元）的企业每年缴纳一笔固定税款。
Brussels was considering changes to its "Corporate Resource for Europe" (CORE) proposal that would require all companies operating in the EU with revenue of more than €100 million ($112.32 million) a year to pay an annual lump-sum tax contribution, the report said.
目前该提案仅要求此类企业每年缴纳10万至75万欧元的税款，这一数额仅占跨国企业总营收的极小部分。
In its current form, CORE requires these companies to pay a fixed annual levy of between €100,000 and €750,000, capturing only a small portion of a multinational company’s earnings.
一位欧盟官员向《金融时报》透露：“部分欧盟成员国反对单纯的数字税，因为它们不愿惹恼美国；还有更多国家反对CORE提案。因此目前的解决方案是将征税范围扩大到几乎所有大型企业。”路透社暂无法核实该报道的真实性。欧盟委员会以及代表多家美国科技企业的计算机与通信行业协会（CCIA）、苹果、谷歌和Meta均未在常规办公时间外回应路透社的置评请求。
"Some [EU] capitals are opposed to a pure digital tax because they don’t want to upset the Americans, and many more are opposed to CORE," an EU official told the FT. "The solution is to expand (the tax) to cover pretty much all the big companies." Reuters could not immediately verify the report. The European Commission, the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), which represents several US tech companies, Apple, Google and Meta did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment outside regular business hours.
今年6月，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普曾威胁称，任何对美国企业征收数字服务税的国家都将面临100%的关税惩罚。
US President Donald Trump in June threatened a 100 per cent tariff on all goods from any country that imposes a digital services tax on American companies.
长期以来，美国贸易代表办公室一直以实施报复性关税相威胁，要求欧洲各国取消此类税收，并坚称这些税项带有歧视性，对在全球占据主导地位的美国企业极为不利。
The US Trade Representative's office, which has long threatened European countries with retaliatory tariffs if they impose such taxes, has argued that these levies discriminate against US companies, which dominate the sector globally.