European Union governments on Tuesday scrapped a plan to introduce an EU-wide di...
FILE PHOTO: European Union flags fly outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, March 6, 2019. REUTERS/Yves Herman
The move is likely to be welcomed by digital giants such as Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook who would have fallen under the scope of the envisaged 3 percent levy. Speaking in a public session of a meeting of EU finance ministers, Romania’s Eugen Teodorovici said there was no agreement on the tax despite months of talks, as the bloc’s Nordic countries and Ireland kept opposing the reform.
Global reforms on tax matters have proven very hard to reach because of widely differing interests among top states.
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