The Hungarian Parliament rejected by a large majority the introduction of a global minimum tax in Hungary on Tuesday 21 June.
“We argue that every state should have the widest possible sovereignty over taxation”, Zoltán Kovács, Hungarian State Secretary for Communication and International Relations, said on Twitter.
This vote comes days after the Hungarian veto on minimum taxation at the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (see EUROPE 12974/8). Hungary has however signed the OECD agreement establishing minimum taxation.
Although it is not officially on the agenda of the EU summit on Thursday 23 and Friday 24 June, the issue could be raised in the margins of the European Council by some leaders, an EU diplomat reported on Wednesday 22 June.
The European Parliament has changed the agenda for the mini-plenary session that opened on Wednesday and will debate national vetoes on tax issues on Thursday. (Original version in French by Anne Damiani)