Up to 40 cents for an hour of 4K film: how much could the gigabyte tax cost you?

5.5 cents per gigabyte. This is the rate of the “Tax on digital data producers” that deputies adopted during the examination of the revenue part of the finance bill for 2027.

The text by Laurent Lhardit from the Socialist and Related group targets companies that send data to French Internet users: video platforms, social networks, hosts, game publishers, etc.

Internet service providers (ISPs) are then responsible for measuring the volumes received for each data transmitter.

The tax would, however, be capped “at 15% of the turnover achieved in France by the issuer or 2% of its total turnover”, with an expected profit of 10 billion euros.