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Samsung’s home country, South Korea, plans to tax Apple and other global tech companies

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2018/08/han-river-seoul.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1500)</div><p>South Korea – home to <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/samsung/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Samsung[/url] – has announced plans to impose new <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/tax/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taxes[/url] on Apple, Amazon, Google and other global tech companies.</p>
<p>Locally-based companies have complained that it’s unfair that foreign companies pay little or no taxes in the country, saying that this creates ‘reverse discrimination’ against local brands. Samsung has been struggling to compete with Apple and Chinese brands, admitting to <a href="https://9to5google.com/2018/07/31/samsung-galaxy-s9-sales-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disappointing sales[/url] of its flagship Galaxy S9 smartphone …</p>
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