BERLIN (Reuters) – Federal and state government tax revenues fell in Europe’s biggest economy during August for the first time this year, the finance ministry said on Thursday. In its monthly report, the ministry said the tax take was down 2.6% to 54.21 billion euros ($53.52 billion) year-on-year compared with a 0.3% increase in July. Only payroll tax and sales tax showed slight increases, the report said. In first eight months of the year, federal and state tax revenues rose by 12.8% to 522.26 billion euros. “Especially in the first half, this was partly due to the weak comparison figure for …