What you need to know about the global tax plan
Finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrialised countries are going over groundbreaking global tax proposals aimed at earning more revenue from multinational companies
Global minimum tax for corporations inches towards reality
First proposed by the United States and now supported by the IMF and major economies, a global minimum tax rate on corporations is gathering momentum toward becoming a reality
Biden puts taxing the rich back in the spotlight
It's an idea championed by US President Joe Biden, leading economists and even the IMF -- make the rich pay more taxes to replenish public coffers and narrow huge wealth gaps
EU tax for massive recovery package? We’ll see…
One of the biggest gambles of the 750 billion-euro coronavirus recovery package agreed by the EU is the idea that Brussels will be able to raise new taxes and levies across Europe to pay for it
Free ports: business boosters or dirty money havens?
Britain has launched a 10-week consultation aimed at creating 10 so-called 'free ports' to stimulate the post-Brexit economy
EU rich-poor divide widens but still a worldwide low
Although the rich-poor gap has widened over the past decades, the European Union is a world leader in fighting inequality, experts say.
Eco-tax championed, contested and still marginal in EU
Taxes on products considered polluting are struggling to gain ground in the EU despite backing from Brussels, in the face of opposition from movements like France's "Yellow Vests".
France to introduce digital tax if no EU deal
France announces it will forge ahead with its own tax on digital giants in 2019 if the EU fails to agree on how to get the likes of Google and Facebook to pay more tax in Europe
Germany, France ‘in fresh push for EU financial transaction tax’
Germany and France will reportedly seek to revive the long-delayed EU financial transaction tax by proposing that member states be allowed to use the revenues to reduce their EU budget contributions.
France urges ‘wake-up call’ on tax for US web giants
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has called for EU leaders to heed a "wake-up call" on a plan to tax US technology giants, amid signs of growing resistance to the French-led initiative