Corporate taxes

The tax deal proposes a minimum corporate levy of at least 15%, and new rules for dividing up the tax revenues from the world’s largest companies — particularly U.S. tech giants.

The European Union’s plan to propose a new digital-services tax is unlikely to undermine global talks aimed at eliminating such levies, according to the head of the international group spearheading the discussions.

The U.S. is pressing European officials to reconsider plans to enact a digital tax across its 27 members in a dispute that threatens to undermine significant progress made recently toward a global corporate tax agreement.

The European Union’s digital chief will meet U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen next week as the EU delayed plans for a digital levy after a potential global tax breakthrough.

An tiny group of countries from far-flung corners of the EU is resisting worldwide consensus on a revamp of corporate tax.

The world took a big step toward sweeping changes in taxation setting a minimum rate for corporations along with rules to share the spoils from multinationals.

Negotiations among more than 100 countries to overhaul global taxation are facing key questions as rich nations seek to persuade many developing economies to reach a preliminary deal in the week and a half.

A proposed global minimum corporate tax would undermine the incentive for multinationals to set up shop on storm-prone islands.

An influential group that sets tax-reporting standards for major commodities suppliers will meet to discuss removing the company's representative from its board.

Top White House aides wrapped up a meeting with a group of senators Tuesday without producing an infrastructure compromise, as differences on how to pay for a proposed $579 billion in new spending for roads, bridges and other projects continue to bedevil the talks.

The Biden administration’s proposal to impose a global minimum tax on corporations has been provoking opposition in Congress, with Republicans advocating user fees instead to pay for infrastructure improvements.

The legislation would require standardized metrics and disclosures of environmental, social and governance measures by companies.

The world’s richest nations have set the stage for a revolution in corporate taxation, but they still have their work cut out to actually achieve that overhaul.

Lawmakers are trying to hash out a compromise $1.2 trillion, eight-year infrastructure spending package.

President Joe Biden’s quest to enact his $4 trillion economic agenda enters a turbulent new phase Monday as the U.S. House comes back into session and Democratic representatives ramp up pressure on the Senate to produce a bipartisan compromise or stop prolonging the effort.

As more Americans cut the cord on traditional landline phones, a government program that subsidizes internet service to poor communities is in danger of collapsing because it relies on taxes from dwindling long-distance calling fees.

Mitt Romney is helping lead lawmakers in creating a new proposal to present to the Biden administration.

Big tech and other industries that have bunkered down in Europe’s tax havens are unlikely to shift their bases under the proposed global minimum tax regime.

Some of the world’s most powerful heads of state will meet in England later this week to confer on the biggest issues facing humanity.

The work-from-home environment is producing tax complexities for companies and their human resources departments.