Global Tax Reform Process Hangs on U.S. Election: Saint-Amans

The OECD’s tax chief warned Tuesday that the fate of global talks on digital services taxes may hinge on the outcome of November’s U.S. elections.

“We’ve been waiting many years already, but there is indeed an election and it’s true that waiting for the outcome of the elections wouldn’t be so outrageous,” Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the OECD’s Center for Tax Policy and Administration, told a Belgian finance committee.

“This would make it possible to resume negotiations in March,” he said, adding that this would set up an “extremely difficult” to conclude negotiations before the end of 2021. The ...