Lack of Digital Tax Consensus Courts Chaos, OECD Warns

The OECD has warned that failure to reach a global agreement on how to tax the digital economy could lead to “international tax chaos.”

“If you don’t have consensus at the OECD level, what you will get is this patchwork of unilateral measures and that will create international tax chaos, because companies will have to comply with all these slightly different unilateral measures,” said Grace Perez-Navarro, deputy director of the Center for Tax Policy and Administration at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

• Perez-Navarro’s comments come as France’s finance minister introduced an amended digital services tax proposal set ...