France’s gigabyte tax would charge data providers €0.055 per gigabyte

France’s proposed gigabyte tax cleared the National Assembly on Friday in an 11–10 vote , putting a charge of €0.055 per gigabyte into the first-reading version of the 2027 budget. The Socialist amendment targets companies delivering data to French internet users, but VideoLAN, the nonprofit behind VLC, estimates it would face costs exceeding €1 million a year. Key takeaways The amendment taxes data providers, not internet subscribers directly. Telecom operators would submit quarterly traffic totals under Arcep oversight. The proposal includes revenue-based caps and excludes access to content. The government opposed the amendment; the Senate is next. France’s gigabyte tax targets content and service providers The proposed levy would apply to data “producers,” including content and service providers such as Google, Meta, Amazon, Netflix and Akamai.

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