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Australia plans to tax digital platforms that don't pay for news

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The tax would apply from Jan. 1 to tech companies that earn more than 250 million Australian dollars ( $160 million ) a year in revenue from Australia .

Move comes after Meta , which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp , announced it would not renew three-year deals to pay Australian news publishers for their content.

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