When the finance ministers of the world’s seven largest rich economies met in Chantilly, France last week, they had a tense discussion about reforming multinational corporate taxation. US officials were peeved at the French hosts for enacting a national sales tax on the local business of global tech groups such as Google and Facebook. Whether Americans are right to see the unilateral tax move as a raid on their companies, it has clearly added impetus to G7 efforts to reform international tax rules.
7月中旬,世界七大發達經濟體的財政部長在法國尚蒂伊(Chantilly)會晤時,就改革針對跨國公司的徵稅方法進行了緊張的討論。法國計劃對谷歌(Google)和Facebook等全球科技集團在法國的業務徵收全國銷售稅,美國官員對此感到憤怒。無論美國將單邊稅收舉措視爲對本國企業的突襲有沒有道理,它的反對都顯然爲七國集團(G7)改革國際稅收規則增添了緊迫性。