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Mnuchin suggests U.S. won't back mandatory rules to curb digital services taxes

By Brett Fortnam  / December 6, 2019 at 1:41 PM
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin this week told the head of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development that the U.S. had concerns with a proposed tax framework crafted to pre-empt the need for digital services taxes and suggested a new approach the OECD warned could imperil the timeline for concluding the negotiations. France’s digital services tax was the subject of a recently concluded Section 301 investigation by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, which this week proposed hitting $2.4...

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