Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has announced that 130 nations have agreed to proposals by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development for a global minimum tax on corporations.
“Today’s agreement by 130 countries representing more than 90 percent of global GDP is a clear sign: the race to the bottom is one step closer to coming to an end,” Yellen said.
Nine countries did not sign; this group included the low-tax European Union members Ireland, Estonia, and Hungary as well as Peru, Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and Kenya.
India, China, and Turkey, which had been holding out at some point in the negotiations, joined in the agreement.
The world’s financial leaders will endorse on July 9-10 a deal setting a global minimum corporate tax and call for technical work to be finished so they can approve the framework for implementation in October, their draft communique showed. The plan is for the new rules to be implemented by 2023, a statement from countries that backed the agreement said.
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