Europe’s battle to rein in Big Tech
The European Union is on a mission to get US tech giants to stop avoiding tax, stifling competition, profiting from news content without paying and serving as platforms for disinformation and hate.
Warming world in the balance at knife-edge climate summit
The United Nations COP26 summit in Glasgow will task world leaders with turning ambitions to restrain global heating into the actions needed to slash greenhouse gas emissions
G20 nervous over Delta threat to economic recovery
As healthcare systems brace for damage inflicted by the quick-spreading Delta variant, G20 finance ministers have warned that it could also slow global economic recovery
Key points agreed at G20 in Venice
Worries over the risk of coronavirus variants, discussion of the price of carbon, the tax on multinationals -- what were the key points agreed by G20 finance ministers in Venice
Global minimum tax deal: what you need to know
Some 131 nations have agreed to what would be the biggest international tax reform in a generation to clamp down on big companies that are gaming the rules
Winners and losers from minimum tax on multinationals
G20 finances ministers will meet in Italy to discuss global tax reforms. The top economies will be the biggest gainers of the OECD-brokered deal, while tax havens will be biggest losers
Ireland’s low-tax economy can survive OECD reform: experts
Ireland has become the European base for a raft of US multinationals but what impact will the global tax reforms have on its low corporate tax regime?
Global minimum tax still far from becoming reality
After the accolades, an agreement among the world's wealthiest countries to set a global minimum tax on the biggest companies now faces a long, bumpy road to implementation
G7 strikes ‘historic’ agreement over global corporate tax
Finance ministers from wealthy G7 nations have endorsed a global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 15%, targeting tech giants and other multinationals accused of not paying enough tax