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Macron says still pushing for Germans to back digital tax: Zeit

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said he still hopes to persuade Germany to back a European Union-wide digital turnover tax, despite Berlin’s preference to get a global minimum corporate tax to cease firms researching for tax havens.

“Hopefully we’re able to agree on a digital tax while using the Germans by December,” Macron told Germany’s Zeit news weekly for the sidelines of any speaking engagement on Wednesday. “I’m not likely to surrender.”

An EU decide to tax big internet firms like Google and Facebook for their turnover is on the verge of collapsing after several members rejected it and announced national initiatives instead.

(Reporting by Douglas Busvine, editing by Riham Alkousaa)

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