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Proposed Six-Year CbC Reporting Safeguard Receives Mixed Reviews

  • By Annagabriella Col√≥n

A proposed safeguard clause for a new EU directive on country-by-country reporting thatwould protect commercially sensitive information doesn't go far enough, according to participants in a recentwebinar hosted by the Renew Europe group. Under the European Commission's proposal, multinational enterprises that fall under the public CbC reporting directivewould be allowed to conceal commercially sensitive information for up to six years. During the March 17webinar, Roland Franke of the Family Business Foundation and Monikawünnemann of the Federation of German Industries said the safeguard clause could temper the CbC reporting requirement's potential negative impact on MNEs, but both said it is not enough to protect them from unfair competition.

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CJEU Says Progressive Turnover Taxes Valid Under State Aid Rules

  • By Kiarra M. Strocko

The EU's highest court has found that Hungarian and Polish tax regimeswith progressive rate structures based on turnover rather than profit are in linewith state aid rules. In its March 16 judgment in European Commission v. Hungary, C-596/19 P (CJEU 2021), and European Commission v. Poland, C-562/19 P (CJEU 2021), the Court of Justice of the European Union interpreted article 107(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to determinewhether to uphold the General Court of the European Union's findings that the progressive turnover taxes of Hungary and Poland do not violate EU state aid rules. The CJEU dismissed the European Commission's appeals in both cases, saying that the General Courtwas justified in its conclusions that the commission had not sufficiently established that the tax measures adopted by Hungary and Polandwere designed in a "manifestly discriminatory manner,with the aim of circumventing the requirements of EU law on State aid," according to the CJEU's March 16 release.

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European Commission Urged to Be Cautious With Digital Levy

  • By Elodie Lamer

EU finance ministers reportedly asked the European Commission March 16 to make sure its June proposal for a digital tax does not interferewith talks on pillars 1 and 2 of the OECD'swork program. There is a need for a global agreement to reform the international tax system, commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said at a news conference after the informal meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council. "Wewelcome the change of position by the new U.S administration andwe remain confident of reaching a consensus by mid-2021." Luxembourg Minister of Finance Pierre Gramegna tweeted March 16 that there is "a reasonable prospect of reaching such a solution by mid-summer."

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Google Will Pass Digital Tax on to Spanish, French Customers

  • By Sam Edwards

Googlewill pass on the cost of new digital services taxes to clients in Spain and France, it says, raising prices in response to unilateral taxes meant to make big tech companies pay more. Clientswith ads in Spain and Francewill be charged an additional 2% fee from May 1, 2021, regardless of company location, Google said thisweek in a statement.

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EU Set to Go It Alone on Tech Tax If Theres No Deal With Biden

  • By Nikos Chrysoloras and William Horobin

European Union leaders are poised to affirm their commitment to a unilateral tax on tech giants if they fail to agree on a global frameworkwith partners, including Joe Biden's U.S. administration, by the middle of this year. Over a summit later this month, leaderswill "stress the need to urgently address the tax challenges arising from the digitalization of the economy to ensure fairness and effectiveness," according to an early draft of a joint communique seen by Bloomberg.while vowing towork on "a consensus-based solution by mid-2021," leaderswill "confirm readiness to move forward if a global solution is not forthcoming," according to the draft,which is still subject to change.

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Digital Tax Proposal from UN Subcommittee to Be Ready by April (1)

  • By Isabel Gottlieb

The United Nationswill have a final version of its digital tax proposal in late April, a subcommittee of the organization said. The U.N. is developing a new "Article 12B" in its model tax treaty to help countriesÔøΩespecially developing countriesÔøΩapply tax to digital services in agreementswith their treaty partners.

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John Kerry warns EU against carbon border tax

  • By Leslie Hook

John Kerry, now Joe Biden's envoy on climate,warned the EU that a carbon border tax adjustment should be a "last resort", at the end of a four-day trip that aimed to build a transatlantic climate alliance ahead of the UN climate talks in November. The former secretary of state told the Financial Times hewas "concerned" about Brussels' forthcoming plans for a carbon border adjustment mechanism and urged the EU towait until after the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow to move forward.

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Big Pharma Keeps Profits Outside the United States

  • By Martin A. Sullivan

Annual reports recently filedwith the SEC show that most large U.S. pharmaceutical companies aren't shifting profits into the United States since passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act at the end of 2017. In fact, some have significantly increased the foreign share of theirworldwide profits. This is a notable development because the TCJA greatly reduced incentives to locate profits in low-tax jurisdictions that pharmaceutical companies have favored for decades.

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Whitehouse Bill Would Limit Outsourcing Tax Incentives

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The No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act, introduced by Senate Finance Committee member Sheldonwhitehouse, D-R.I.,would provide for current-year inclusion of net controlled foreign corporation income and modify rules regarding inverted corporations, among other measures.

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U.S. Stalls While France Pushes Carbon Border Adjustment Tax

  • By Sarah Paez

France is pushing for a shared framework on green investmentswith the United States that includes a carbon border adjustment tax, but the United States has not yet committed to an energy tax. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire received John Kerry, the U.S. special envoy on climate, on March 10 to discuss Europe-U.S. cooperation on climate matters after President Biden rejoined the Paris climate accord and recommitted to international strategies combating globalwarming.

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Corporation Tax Hike Wont Hurt U.K. Competitiveness, Sunak Says

  • By Stephanie Soong Johnston

Despite plans to increase the corporation tax rate in 2023, the United Kingdomwill remain a probusiness country because it offers many other incentives to attract investment, the nation's finance chief said. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak on March 11 defended his proposal to increase the corporation tax rate from 19 percent to 25 percent starting in April 2023. He spoke during a House of Commons Treasury Committee hearing on the 2021 budget,whichwas presented March 3. The hearing coincidedwith the publication of Finance Bill 2021.

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Yellen Removes Obstacle to Global Corporate-Tax Deal

  • By Richard Rubin and Paul Hannon

WASHINGTONÔøΩThe U.S. dropped a Trump administration demand in global corporate-tax negotiations, removing one obstacle to an agreement on adapting the tax system to the digital economy. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday that the U.S.would no longer insist on a "safe harbor" underwhich some elements of the tax ruleswould be optional. The idea, proposed in late 2019 by her predecessor, Steven Mnuchin, drew objections from European counterparts, though talks on how itwouldwork never advanced very far.

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Path to Global Tax Deal Tough Even With U.S. Softening Demands

  • By Isabel Gottlieb

The U.S. decision to set aside a roadblock to a deal to overhaul global tax rules earned praise from policymakers Friday, but countries still have to address a number of key issues before agreement can be reached midyear. The U.S. plan, first proposed by former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, demanded that part of an OECD-led effort to changewhere and how multinational companies are taxed globally be optional. The U.S. call for a "safe harbor"was so internationally unpopular it had created an impasse in the talks.

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OECD Explores Streamlining to Smooth Adoption of Minimum Tax

  • By Hamza Ali

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is exploring measures to help countries implement its global minimum tax proposal, it said Friday. The OECD is consideringwhether it can use a multilateral instrument (MLI) thatwould allow countries to change multiple tax treatieswithout the need for negotiation, as one method for implementing its minimum tax plan. It had previously used this method to discourage tax avoidance through a practice known as treaty shopping.

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Sony and Toyota Executives Joining Japan Digital Tax Panel

  • By Hamza Ali

Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is forming a panel of experts to look into the taxation of the digital economy, focusing specifically on improving competitiveness of Japanese companies. The panelwill look at the possibility of launching a digital services tax, similar to the taxes imposed in France, Italy, and the U.K. So far, the government has been monitoring international developments.

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U.K. Implements OECD Gig-economy Information Exchange Rules

  • By Hamza Ali

The U.K. tax office is set to get sweeping new powers to demand information about sellers on digital platforms like Amazon.com Inc. and ebay Inc. The new powers, announced inwednesday's budget,would "affect digital platforms in the U.K. that facilitate the provision of services by U.K. and/or other taxpayers."

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Yellen Calls for G-20 Action on Global Corporate Tax Challenges

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The United States remains ready to address new corporate taxation challenges from the changing global economy and "is committed to the multilateral discussions on both pillarswithin the OECD/G-20 Inclusive Framework," U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a February 25 letter to her G-20 colleagues.

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Biden to Consider Carbon Border Adjustments, USTR Says

  • By Annagabriella Col√≥n

A carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) could be one of several approaches considered by the Biden administration to curb greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). According to the president's 2021 Trade Policy Agenda and 2020 Annual Report, "the Biden administrationwillworkwith allies and partners that are committed to fighting climate change. Thiswill include exploring and developing market and regulatory approaches to address greenhouse gas emissions in the global trading system. As appropriate and consistentwith domestic approaches to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, this includes consideration of carbon border adjustments." The USTR said it presented the papers to Congress March 1.

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The Democrats New Mantra: Tax Harmonization

  • By Mindy Herzfeld

Recognizing that the OECD's proposal for reallocating the tax bases of multinationals may be neitherworkable nor passable, U.S. administration and congressional leaders are still trying to salvage hope for a multilateral tax deal. A shift to a focus on tax harmonization appears to be underway. Houseways and Means Committee Chair Richard E. Neal, D-Mass., said February 9 at thewashington International Trade Association virtual conference that after meetingwith Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to discuss digital taxation, the two agreed that "harmonization of tax rates is very important" and that the OECD model "could be very helpful." In February 12 remarks to the Tax Council Policy Institute, Neal reiterated that harmonizing international corporate tax rates "ought to be a priority."

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EU Wants New Corporate Tax Framework to Increase Fairness

  • By Sarah Paez

The EUwants to reform its corporate tax framework to better meet the challenges of maintaining fair competitionwithin the internal market and securing sustainable, long-term funding for public infrastructure, regional governments, and business development. In a March 4 roadmap, the European Commission laid out a vision for a long-awaited communication thatwill set out priorities for corporate taxation over the coming years to meet the changing needs of a globalized economy hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis.

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Pillar 2 CbC Reporting Safe Harbor Possible, OECD Official Says

  • By Stephanie Soong Johnston

There is room for mid-2021 agreement on two key simplification measures for an OECD-led plan for minimum taxation, including one tied to country-by-country reporting requirements that companies already complywith, an OECD official said. However, morework is needed on "tax administrative guidance,"whichwould identify low-risk jurisdictions inwhich multinational enterpriseswould be presumed to have a sufficiently high effective tax rate (ETR) above the minimum rate set out in pillar 2, according to John Peterson.

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The Long Road to a New U.N. Tax Convention

  • By Nana Ama Sarfo

Nana Ama Sarfo Now that a high-level U.N. panel has called for a complete overhaul of the global financial system ÔøΩ including a new U.N. tax convention, a U.N. tax body, and a global minimum tax ÔøΩwhatwill happen next?

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Economic Analysis: Big Pharma Keeps Profits Outside the United States

  • By Martin A. Sullivan

Annual reports recently filedwith the SEC show that most large U.S. pharmaceutical companies aren't shifting profits into the United States since passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act at the end of 2017. In fact, some have significantly increased the foreign share of theirworldwide profits. This is a notable development because the TCJA greatly reduced incentives to locate profits in low-tax jurisdictions that pharmaceutical companies have favored for decades.

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India risks tax clash with Biden over crackdown on tech companies

  • By Benjamin Parkin

India is heading for a showdownwith Joe Biden's administration after announcing one of theworld's toughest taxes on foreign technology companies. Narendra Modi's government this month announced several amendments to a 2 per cent "equalisation levy" on digital services, introduced in April last year,which analysts said amounted to an expansion of the tax. The measure,which applies to everything from ecommerce to video streaming, follows a similar 6 per cent levy on digital advertising from 2016, known as the "Google tax".

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US removes stumbling block to global deal on digital tax

  • By James Politi
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US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen has told G20 finance ministers thatwashingtonwill drop a contentious part of its proposal for reform of global digital taxation rules that had been the main stumbling block to an agreement.

The move could unlock long-stalled multilateral negotiations at the OECD,which struggled to make progress after the Trump administration first insisted on the "safe harbour" measure in late 2019. The provisionwould have allowed technology companies to abide by any agreement on a voluntary basis andwas strongly opposed by several European countries.

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A New Corporate Tax

  • By Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

This articlewill argue thatwe should tax corporations for the same reasonwe originally adopted the corporate tax in 1909: to limit the power and regulate the behavior of our largest corporations,which are monopolies or quasi-monopolies that dominate their respective fields and drive their competitors out of business (the best example being Big Tech ÔøΩ that is, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft). But if that is the reason to have a corporate tax, it should have a different structure from the current flat corporate tax of 21 percent. Instead, the tax should be set at zero for normal returns by allowing the expensing of physical capital, but at a sharply progressive rate for supernormal returns (rents).

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Coca Cola: A Decisive IRS Transfer Pricing Victory, at Last

  • By Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Gianluca Mazzoni

Coca Cola v. Commissioner (Tax Court, Nov. 18, 2020) is the first decisive IRS victory in a major transfer pricing case since 1979. If the outcome is not reversed on appeal, thiswill mark an important shift in transfer pricing litigation in the US, and perhaps indicate that the IRS couldwin some of the other major pending cases, like the one against Facebook.

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Rashida Tlaib Urges Financial-Transaction Tax

  • By Alexander Osipovich

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), a member of the so-called "squad" of firebrand progressives in the House, is calling for a financial transaction tax to rein in risky stock trading and to redistributewealth. "The majority of Americans support taxingwall Street transactions," she said at Thursday's hearing on the GameStop trading frenzy. "This tax, to me,would discourage risky and high-frequency trading."

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Coke, Whirlpool Keep Tax Court Losses Off the Books

  • By Richard Rubin and Theo Francis

Richard Rubin and Theo Francis consider how tax court decisions may impact companies' bottom lines, or not.

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U.N. Seeks Comments on Model Treatys Updated Royalty Definition

  • By Annagabriella Col√≥n

A U.N. subcommittee is seeking input through March 16 on a proposal to update the definition of royalties in article 12 of the U.N. model tax treaty to cover payments for software.

The discussion draft, published February 17, invites stakeholders to considerwhether the description of software in paragraph 12.1 of the commentary to article 12 of the OECD model treaty ÔøΩwhich is mirrored in paragraph 12 of a proposed U.N. treaty commentary ÔøΩ is consistentwith current business practice, andwhether software payments should be added to the definition of royalties in the U.N. model treaty.

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Formula-Based Transfer Pricing: How Brazil Can Improve the OECDs Framework

  • By Tatiana Falc√£o

In this article, the author explains how Brazil's transfer pricing methods,which rely heavily on fixed margins, can be reconciledwith the OECD's transfer pricing guidelines and how emerging economies can benefit from the resulting system.

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MNEs Invited to Apply to Join New Tax Risk Assessment Program

  • By Stephanie Soong Johnston

Multinational enterprise groups can apply to participate in a new multilateral tax risk assessment and assurance program spearheaded by the OECD Forum on Tax Administration (FTA) to obtain greater certainty about cross-border tax risks.

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U.K. Plans to Stay Competitive With G-7 on Corporation Tax

  • By Alex Morales

The U.K. expects to keep business levies competitivewith the other Group of Seven nations, a government official familiarwith the matter said, giving Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak scope to raise corporation tax in his budget nextweek. The U.K. rate is already the lowest among the seven nations at 19%, the person said. Rates in Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan are all above 25%. The official also pointed to proposals earlier thisweek by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to lift the U.S. rate to 28% from 21%.

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U.S. Risks Losing Money by Forgoing OECD Deal: Former Official

  • By Isabel Gottlieb

Congresswould be "leaving money on the table" if the rest of theworld agreed to the OECD's digital tax planwithout the U.S., a former Treasury official said. Even if the U.S. didn't sign on, its large companieswould likely still face the effects of the OECD's proposed "Amount A," said Lafayette "Chip" Harter,who served as deputy assistant Treasury secretary for international tax affairs until late last year.

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U.S. Aims to Protect Revenue in OECD Tax Talks, Adeyemo Says

  • By Colin Wilhelm

The U.S. is committed to engaging in multilateral tax talks at the OECD and G20, Adewale Adeyemo, nominee to be deputy Treasury secretary, told members of the Senate Tuesday.

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EU Parliament to Lean on OECD to Meet Summer Tax Deal Deadline

  • By Stephen Gardner

The European Parliament plans towarn international tax negotiators that a mid-2021 deadline for agreement on digital and minimum corporate taxation must be respected, lawmakers said. Thewarning that the European Union is "not accepting any more a delay"would take the form of a nonbinding resolution that the Parliamentwould finalize in April, said Martin Hlavacek, a centrist member from the Czech Republic,who is one of the drafters of the resolution. Hewas speaking during a tax subcommittee meetingwednesday.

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China, U.S. Could be Allies in Global Digital Tax Reform Talks

  • By Stephen Gardner

The U.S. and China's interests are alignedwhen it comes to digital taxation, potentially influencing international tax reform talks, a former OECD tax chief said Friday. Theworld's largest two economies both host internet giants, including Alibaba Group, Amazon.com, Baidu, and Facebook, meaning they "have almost exactly the same interests" in relation to digital taxation, said Jeffrey Owens,whowas previously head of tax policy at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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Digital Services Tax: Unilateral Initiatives on the Move


The introduction of a Digital Services Tax (DST) to ensure that profits are taxedwhere economic value is created has been object of tough debate over recent years. The unilateral attempts of single countries to tax multinational companies active in digital businesswas initially addressed at EU level by the European Commission,which tried to propose a harmonized set of rules to tax companies rather than leaving this to individual EU member states.

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Swiss Wealth Tax Rakes in Cash as Covid Stokes Global Debate (1)

  • By Catherine Bosley

Switzerland'swealth tax offers a rare real-world example of how a levy on assets canwork, just as such ideas gain traction elsewhere in thewake of the coronavirus crisis. The measure forces residents in one of theworld's richest nations to tally the value of their investments, real estate, cars, fine art, Bitcoin, and even beehives and cows. A percentage is then skimmed off by cantonal governments, varying in size and method depending on the canton. Switzerland, among only a handful of countrieswith the levy, can make a claim that it has the most effective one.

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Congressional Democrats Focused on Fixing Flaws in TCJA

  • By Ryan Finley

Advisers to the Senate Finance and Houseways and Means committees believe there is broad support among congressional Democrats for legislative proposals thatwould address the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act's design flaws.

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International Business Group Seeks Withdrawal of FTC Regs

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The United States Council for International Business has recommended that proposed foreign tax credit regulations (REG-101657-20) bewithdrawn to permit a thorough review of the policy objectives of the U.S. FTC regimewithin the context of the ongoing debate over the extension of the international tax system beyond traditional norms.

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Coca-Colas U.S. Transfer Pricing Dispute May Cost $12 Billion

  • By Ryan Finley

If the IRS applies the transfer pricing method approved by the Tax Court to the Coca-Cola Co.'s post-2009 tax years, the total liability in its U.S. transfer pricing dispute could reach $12 billion.

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It's VAT Talk Time Again


Jasper L. "Jack" Cummings, Jr., is of counselwith Alston & Bird LLP in Raleigh, North Carolina.

In this article, Cummings argues that the Biden administration has no reason to consider a VAT, at first, but because of Republican debt concerns and Democratic (and Republican) spending desires, it might be time to review the stakes and a bipartisan, credit-invoice VAT might some day appear.

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A Major Simplification of the OECD's Pillar 1 Proposal

  • By Michael J. Graetz

In this article, the author suggests major modifications to the OECD's pillar 1 blueprint proposal to create a new taxing right for multinational digital income and some product sales thatwould greatly simplify the proposal. The modifications rely on readily available existing financial information andwould achieve certainty in the application of pillar 1,while adhering to its fundamental structure and policies.

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Amazons U.S. Tax Costs Jumped in 2020. It Likely Would Pay Even More Under Biden Plan.

  • By Richard Rubin

WASHINGTONÔøΩ Amazon.com Inc., the company frequently cited by Democrats in their calls to raise corporate taxes, saw its tax liability jump last year as it prospered during the pandemic. But the technology giant, and others like it, could face even higher tax bills under the Biden administration's plan for a minimum tax rate on profitable corporations.

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Congress Signals Multinational Tax Perks on Chopping Block (1)

  • By Siri Bulusu and Kaustuv Basu

A proposal to eliminate a tax benefit for multinationals to help pay for a Covid stimulus package may be a sign that Congress is ready to target other such benefits. Congresswants to revoke the tax breakÔøΩwhich came into effect this year after first being introduced in 2004ÔøΩto help pay for a $1.9 trillion stimulus package (H. R. 133) aimed at additional Covid relief.without the benefit, multinationalswould lose an election that shields them from losing foreign tax credits if they have debt in the U.S.

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WEEKEND INSIGHTS: OECD Amount B and Marylands Digital Tax Bill

  • By Erin McManus

This is aweekend roundup of Bloomberg Tax Insights,written by practitioners and featuring expert analysis on current issues in tax practice and policy. The articles featured here represent just a handful of the many Insights published eachweek. For a full archive of articles, browse by jurisdiction at Daily Tax Report, Daily Tax Report: State, Daily Tax Report: International, Transfer Pricing Report, and Financial Accounting.

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Digital Tax Deal Critical in 2021, Indonesia Minister Says

  • By Isabel Gottlieb

Indonesia hopes for a global digital tax deal this year so the nation can lead a multilateral implementation starting next year, the country's finance minister said. "The expectation, and the hope, is that in 2021, under the Italian G20 Presidency,we are going to achieve a historic agreement on international taxation, essentially via the two-pillar solution under discussion," Sri Mulyani Indrawatiwrote in a Feb. 8 post on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development'swebsite. In pandemic-stricken economies, "Finding a sustainable, equitable, and fair source of revenue is critical," she said.

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Sunak agrees to tie own hands and stick with Tory triple tax lock


Chancellor Rishi Sunak has agreed to tie his own hands at next month's Budget by stickingwith the Conservatives' "triple tax lock",which stops him raising the rates of income tax, national insurance or value added tax. Treasury officials had hoped Mr Sunakwould ditch the Tories' 2019 election manifesto commitment,which stops him using the three biggest tax levers to start curbing a deficit that is expected to top £400bn in 2020-21 because of the coronavirus crisis.

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The BEPS Gambit: Will the OECD Know When to Resign?

  • By Robert Goulder

Robert Goulder examines recent proposals to simplify the OECD's pillar 1 blueprint and concludes the projectwill neverwin U.S. support.

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