Minimum tax: Five EU states increase pre • Table.Briefings

At the EU finance ministers’ meeting, five states announce that they will follow through with the internationally agreed minimum tax on their own if necessary. This way, they want to circumvent Viktor Orbán’s blockade at the EU level. The German Ministry of Finance is already working on a concrete implementation plan.

On the sidelines of the informal meeting of finance ministers in Prague, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner and his colleagues from France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands announced their approach: „As inflation hits heavily the spending power of our fellow citizens, companies must pay their fair share of the burden to alleviate the impact of the global energy crisis,“ reads a joint statement by the G5 finance ministers. All five want to introduce the minimum taxes in a nationally coordinated way if necessary.

Minimum tax: Five EU states increase pressure on Hungary

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