France to go ahead with digital tax this year regardless of possible international deal

PARIS (Reuters) - France will go ahead with its tax on big digital businesses this year whether there is progress or not towards an international deal on the issue, its finance minister said on Thursday.France offered in January to suspend until the end of the year instalments of its tax on big digital companies' income in France while an international deal to re-write the rules of cross-border taxation was negotiated this year."Never has a digital tax been more legitimate and more necessary,"..