OECD tax chief fears pillar two will not find support without pillar one

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OECD tax chief fears pillar two will not find support without pillar one

Danish Mehboob
July 14 2020
The US Treasury’s Office of Tax Policy proposes global minimum tax rate floor under pillar two at 15%

The OECD’s two-pillar proposal to address the tax challenges of the digitalised economy are technically different, but it is unlikely that one pillar would be adopted without the other, according to the OECD’s Pascal Saint-Amans.

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