US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is expected to press her G20 counterparts for a global minimum corporate tax rate above the 15 percent floor to which 130 countries agreed last week.
United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has been working with tax-writing committees in the US Congress to include provisions in budget 'reconciliation' legislation that align US tax laws with the new international tax goals [File: Greg Nash/Reuters]
6 Jul 2021
United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will press Group of 20 (G20) counterparts this week for a global minimum corporate tax rate above the 15 percent floor to which 130 countries agreed last week, but a rate decision is not expected until future phases of negotiations, US Department of the Treasury officials said on Tuesday.
The specific rate, and potential exemptions, are among issues still to be determined after 130 countries reached an historic agreement at a Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) meeting last week.
The countries outlined a global minimum tax and the reallocation of taxing rights for large, highly profitable multinational firms.
The deal is widely expected to be endorsed by G20 finance leaders when they meet on Friday and Saturday in Venice, Italy.
Negotiations on the global minimum tax rate, aimed for completion by the G20 leaders’ summit in October, is tied to the outcome of legislation to raise the US minimum tax rate, a Treasury official said.
The administration of US President Joe Biden has proposed doubling the US minimum tax on overseas corporations’ intangible income to 21 percent along with a new companion “enforcement” tax that would deny deductions to companies for tax payments to countries that fail to adopt the new global minimum rate.
The officials said several countries were pushing for a rate above 15 percent, along with the US.
Yellen has been working with tax-writing committees in the US Congress to include such provisions in budget “reconciliation” legislation, to align US tax laws with the new international tax goals.
Democrats in Congress have said they plan to pursue such legislation, expected to include new social programme investments and tax increases on US corporations and wealthy Americans, without Republican votes if necessary. Republicans have vowed to fight any US tax increases.
The officials said the Treasury’s legislative proposals for reallocating taxation rights have been carefully crafted to appeal to both Democrats and Republicans.
The plans mark a shift from traditional headquarters-based taxation to allow countries where the largest and most profitable US firms sell products and services to tax a portion of those profits. The Treasury would also be able to tax part of the profits of large foreign firms selling into the US.
The official said that the positives from the deal include ensuring no loss of US tax revenues and ending foreign countries’ digital services taxes aimed at US technology giants.
The Treasury officials added that Yellen is also making clear that a potential new digital levy expected to be proposed by the European Commission in the coming weeks to fund COVID-19 recovery is inconsistent with European Union commitments to the OECD framework agreement signed on July 1.
European Commission executive vice president Margrethe Vestager told Reuters news agency that the levy would be paid largely by European companies to repay 750 billion euros ($887bn) in borrowing for a post-pandemic recovery fund.
US, India have shared interest in robust global minimum tax: US Treasury Secy to FM Sitharaman
NEWS AGENCIES| Updated on: 30 June 2021
US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen spoke with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday and discussed that the US and India have a shared interest in implementing a robust global minimum tax.
"Earlier today, Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen spoke with Finance Minister of India Nirmala Sitharaman. Secretary Yellen discussed that the United States and India have a shared interest in implementing a robust global minimum tax," the US Department of the Treasury said in a release.
The treasury department statement said that Yellen stressed the importance of partnership with India in the G20 and OECD to seize a once-in-a-generation opportunity to remake the international tax system to help the global economy thrive.
Earlier this month, the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies announced that they have come to a preliminary agreement to set a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15 percent.
The proposal will next go to the OCED (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and G20 countries for further discussion.
According to the experts, the major economies have been aiming to prevent multinational companies from shifting profits to low-tax territories regardless of where their sales are made.
Back in March, Finance Minister Sitharaman held a discussion on global economic outlook with Yellen, wherein the latter appreciated India's contribution to the world's vaccine efforts.
(ANI)
US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen spoke with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday and discussed that the US and India have a shared interest in implementing a robust global minimum tax.
"Earlier today, Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen spoke with Finance Minister of India Nirmala Sitharaman. Secretary Yellen discussed that the United States and India have a shared interest in implementing a robust global minimum tax," the US Department of the Treasury said in a release.
The treasury department statement said that Yellen stressed the importance of partnership with India in the G20 and OECD to seize a once-in-a-generation opportunity to remake the international tax system to help the global economy thrive.
Earlier this month, the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies announced that they have come to a preliminary agreement to set a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15 percent.
The proposal will next go to the OCED (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and G20 countries for further discussion.
According to the experts, the major economies have been aiming to prevent multinational companies from shifting profits to low-tax territories regardless of where their sales are made.
Back in March, Finance Minister Sitharaman held a discussion on global economic outlook with Yellen, wherein the latter appreciated India's contribution to the world's vaccine efforts.
(ANI)
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