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EU Institutions Still Disagree on Public CbC Reporting Proposal
By: Sarah Paez
A proposal for public country-by-country reporting is tied up in interinstitutional negotiations, where the European Parliament and EU Council have differing views on the scope of the proposal, according to an EP committee chair.
To read more go here Subscription RequiredEU Tax Chief Confident of Reaching Global Tax Deal
By: Stephanie Soong Johnston
Now that the Biden administration has proposed ways to revitalize global tax reform negotiations, chances are high that countries will be able to agree on a common way forward, the EU’s tax commissioner said.
To read more go here Subscription RequiredAssessing GILTI Country by Country: Pros, Cons, and Alternatives
By: Mindy Herzfeld
Mindy Herzfeld analyzes the different proposals to change the taxation of foreign earnings in the international tax rules, specifically the Biden administration’s proposal for imposing GILTI on a country-by-country basis.
To read more go here Subscription RequiredWill the OECD and Treasury See Eye to Eye on QBAI?
By: Martin A. Sullivan
Martin Sullivan provides three policy justifications — contrary to the OECD and consistent with the Biden administration’s intentions — for repealing QBAI. He then offers a simple alternative to the QBAI approach for exempting routine returns as a possible compromise between the OECD and administration positions.
To read more go here Subscription RequiredEurope’s low-tax nations braced for struggle over US corporate tax plan
By: Mehreen Khan and Laura Noonan
Europe’s low-tax nations have responded positively to the Biden administration’s plans for a radical reform of global corporate taxation, even though they will lose out — but signalled that Washington can expect a fight over much of the detail.
To read more go here Subscription RequiredGlobal Corporate Taxes Face ‘Revolution’ After U.S. Shift (2)
By William Horobin, Catherine Bosley, and Jana Randow
A surprise U.S. drive to overhaul international corporate taxation promises a new era for governments to capture a bigger tax take from some of the most successful global businesses -- if only the rest of the world can agree.
To read more go here Subscription RequiredPlans for a Global Minimum Tax Revolution, Explained: QuickTake
By Laura Davison and Isabel Gottlieb
Multinational companies have long used creative -- and legal -- ways to shrink their tax bills. One is to book profits from customers in places like Boston and Berlin as if they came from, say, Bermuda, which has no corporate income tax. Long-stalled efforts to revamp the global tax system are getting a new push, thanks to the pandemic and a policy U-turn from the U.S. The complex proposals boil down to two basic notions: setting a minimum corporate tax rate across the world (think of this as making a bigger revenue pie), and rewriting the rules for allocating that revenue among countries (cutting the pie up differently).
To read more go here Subscription RequiredU.S. Floats Tax Compromise Targeting 100 International Firms
By Isabel Gottlieb and Laura Davison
The Biden administration has floated a compromise proposal to counterparts around the world that would apply a new international tax code to, at most, 100 global corporate giants. The U.S. plan would consider a company’s profitability in determining whether more of its income should be taxed by the countries where it does business -- something the Biden administration argues will resolve long-standing disputes about which companies should be targeted by new global tax rules -- according to a document obtained by Bloomberg News.
To read more go here Subscription RequiredIRS Foreign Tax Credit Rules Too Harsh, Groups Tell Agency
By Michael Rapoport
An IRS proposal denying foreign tax credits for companies hit by digital taxes outside the U.S. is too broadly written, business groups warned. The 2020 proposed rules (REG-101657-20; RIN: 1545-BP70) would prevent companies from getting U.S. tax credits on many taxes on which they’ve historically been able to do so—such as withholding taxes—and could lead to double taxation, they told the IRS during a virtual hearing Wednesday.
To read more go here Subscription RequiredA Global Minimum Corporate Tax Is a Loser
By R. Mark Adams
As long as there are corporate taxes there will be arguments about what is fair, competitive and how to avoid a “race to the bottom” (“U.S. Aims for Global Minimum Corporate Tax Rate,” Page One, April 6). Alas, there is a simple solution: Set the rate at zero. Corporate taxes support only about 10% of federal receipts, a figure that could be easily covered by raising other taxes. Economists already debate whether corporations truly pay taxes or merely pass them along in an inefficient and, yes, unfair, manner. Clever ploys such as domicile shifting and inversions will be relegated to the scrapheap of corporate history. And if none of this works, well, deficit spending is all the rage anyway; there isn’t the slightest pretense of fiscal discipline anywhere near our nation’s capital.
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