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Crazy Tax Ideas Part 1 - Taxing Internet Searches

Jim Riley

8th January 2010

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Here is an “innovative” idea for a new tax from the French government that might interest students entering Challenge the Chancellor 2010. No friend of Google, the French are proposing to impose a per-click tax each time someone in France conducts an Internet search. Given that around 80% of all Internet searches are via Google, this is in effect a proposal to tax Google. Could it work? How would it be tracked / measured? Would it affect the online habits of the French?

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Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.

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