Le Maire: France to go ahead with digital tax this year regardless of international deal
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PARIS (Reuters) - France will go ahead with plans to apply a tax on digital businesses this year whether or not there is an international deal on the issue, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday."Never has a digital tax been more legitimate," Le Maire said, echoing comments he made earlier that the coronavirus crisis made such levies more pertinent than ever.Nearly 140 countries are negotiating the first major rewriting of international tax rules in more than a generation, to take..