(If this goes through, the US left won't have anyone left to tax as they'll
all leave the US for elsewhere.)

From: https://tinyurl.com/ym4fav36 (theepochtimes.com)

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US Floats 15 Percent Global Corporate Tax as 'Floor' From Which It Hopes to
Push for Higher Rate

BY TOM OZIMEK May 21, 2021
Updated: May 21, 2021

As part of its international tax negotiations, the Treasury Department on
Thursday offered to accept a global minimum corporate tax of at least 15
percent, calling it a floor from which it hopes ambitious discussions will
push that rate higher.

Treasury made the announcement in a Thursday release, which came after two
days of meetings as part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) / G20 steering group on tax base erosion and profit
shifting.

"As part of those meetings, discussions on the global corporate minimum tax
rate began in earnest," Treasury said, adding that leaders from the Office
of Tax Policy at Treasury pressed the point to steering group members that,
"a global corporate minimum tax rate would ensure the global economy thrives
based on a more level playing field in the taxation of multinational
corporations, and would spur innovation, growth, and prosperity while
improving fairness for middle class and working people."

Treasury negotiators further argued that, "with the global corporate minimum
tax functionally set at zero today, there has been a race to the bottom on
corporate taxes, undermining the United States' and other countries' ability
to raise the revenue needed to make critical investments."

Earlier Treasury proposals were for a 21 percent global minimum corporate
tax rate, a significantly higher level than the 15 percent it pitched to
steering group members.

"Treasury underscored that 15 [percent] is a floor and that discussions
should continue to be ambitious and push that rate higher," Treasury said,
adding that it was "heartened by the positive reception to its proposals and
the unprecedented progress being made towards establishing a global
corporate minimum tax."

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen first proposed a 21 percent global corporate
minimum tax rate on U.S.  multinationals in April as part of President Joe
Biden's $2.2 trillion infrastructure spending proposal, which would be
financed largely by increasing the domestic U.S.  corporate tax rate to 28
percent.

The Trump administration and congressional Republicans in 2017 cut the
corporate tax rate to 21 percent from 35 percent.  At the same time,
Treasury launched a U.S.  minimum tax of 10.5 percent, known as the Global
Intangible Low-Taxed Income tax (GILTI) to capture revenue shifted by
companies to tax-haven countries.

The Biden administration's proposed 21 percent GILTI rate was widely viewed
as a starting point for renewed OECD talks on a global minimum tax.

While France and Germany backed the 21 percent, other countries have pushed
for a lower rate, as previous OECD discussions on the subject had centered
around 12.5 percent, the same rate charged by Ireland.

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said that the latest U.S.  proposal
"could be a good compromise" while his German counterpart Olaf Scholz
welcomed it as "big progress."

They both insisted, however, that talks should be wrapped up as planned by a
July meeting of G20 finance ministers, amid suggestions from the OECD that
it could take until October to finalize a deal.

The Biden administration's efforts for the adoption of a global corporate
minimum tax rate is a bid to at least partially counteract any disadvantages
that might arise from the president's proposal to raise the U.S.  corporate
tax rate to 28 percent, a move panned by Republicans and business groups as
hurting the competitiveness of U.S.  companies and slowing wage growth.

Some economists have voiced skepticism over the Biden administration's push
for a global minimum tax rate for corporations, saying not only will it
"frustrate" the free market, but it will see little support from foreign
governments.

"At the end of the day, any international agreement is essentially toothless
due to the existence of national sovereignty," Gigi Foster, professor of
economics at the University of New South Wales (NSW) told The Epoch Times.

"The incentive for individual countries to offer appealing tax treatment
will remain, no matter how strong the international pressure on a country to
conform to some nominated standard," she added.

Daniel Teng and Reuters contributed to this report.
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Later,
Sean

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