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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said he is confident the Group of 20 economies will back a deal on international tax, even as his country pushes for a higher minimum corporate rate.

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.

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.

Financial-services companies are set to be exempt from a global plan to make multinational firms pay more tax to the countries where they operate, in a win for U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak.

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.

The private equity industry is trying defend a cherished tax break that Democrats have targeted for elimination.

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

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The near doubling of the capital gains tax rate would have a large impact on the net profit from any sale of any capital asset.

Stephen Schwarzman said the risk of an increase in U.S. capital gains taxes has led to explosive growth in potential targets for his alternative investment firm.

A combination of high valuations on companies and potentially higher taxes in the future is proving to be a potent motivator for selling private companies.

The president’s plan for trillions in proposed spending and tax increases is likely to take at least until September to clear.

The White House reiterated its opposition to indexing the gasoline tax to inflation to help pay for an infrastructure plan.

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.

Fueled remote work and worries over tax hikes, financial advisors who live in expensive cities are trimming their personal tax bills by moving to low-tax and no-tax states.

Republican and Democratic senators said they’re open to considering the first change in the national gasoline tax since 1993 to help fund a bipartisan infrastructure spending package.

The proposed changes are worrying investors and their tax advisors, especially the possibility of making them retroactive.