11/09/2020 (Agence Europe) – The new president of the Eurogroup, Ireland’s Paschal Donohoe, promised on Friday 11 September that if OECD negotiations fail, his country would study “carefully and constructively” any new European proposal for a digital tax in 2021. “I accept that the [method of] taxation of very large companies, particularly digital companies, does need to change”, Mr Donohoe said at the end of the Eurogroup meeting in Berlin, while adding that this should be done in a way that is “fair and effective for all EU countries”. In 2019, Ireland opposed a European solution, preferring an OECD solution (see EUROPE 12212/6). Furthermore, Mr Donohoe reiterated that he would be addressing this issue in his capacity as Minister for Finance of Ireland and not in his capacity as President of the Eurogroup. (MF)