Apple's Cook Meets Macron in Paris Amid Calls for Tech Taxes

  • French official say Cook accepts tax systems will change
  • Macron supports tech but says giants need to pay more tax

Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook met Emmanuel Macron in Paris Monday, and according to French officials he didn’t push back against calls by the French president and European allies to change rules in the region to get technology giants to pay more taxes.

The two met at the French presidential palace at the request of Cook.