Digg News - France considers tax for Google, Yahoo and Facebook
A report, commissioned by the government, suggests firms such as Google, Yahoo and Facebook should pay a new tax on their online ad revenues.
A number of holiday home owners use google, yahoo and facebook to advertise and create and increase booking revenue. Once you have created your own website, Google and Yahoo advertising is a great form of web promotion for your holiday home and your website.Lots of people believe that this form of advertising for your holiday home, bed and breakfast or hotel is only for the big players and you need a huge budget but this is not the case. You can set a budget and select your own advertising words so keeping you totally in your control and advertising to the audiance you want.
Facebook a social networking site also offers online advertising for your website. If you have never looked at facebook its a great way to get guests to join and share photos and comments and also enables you to let them know any promotions and improvements you have done. Facebook also allows you to create adverts which appear down the edge of their site to promote your website.
France are watching these big search engines and social networking sites offering advertising packages on their .fr domains and they are not receiving tax revenue from this.
The proposals for a tax on content is still very much in the early stages and there are few details of how it would exactly work.