Support for OECD Digital Tax Deal Waning, French Official Says

Consensus on an international agreement for taxing the digital economy has greatly weakened among countries, a top French tax official warned.

The “field is now very open” around discussions on the first part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s global tax reform, Laurent Martel, director of tax legislation at France’s Directorate-General of Public Finances, told a parliamentary committee hearing Wednesday.

Members of the OECD’s Inclusive Framework—countries involved in the global tax deal negotiations—are preparing to restart talks on taxation of the digital economy, a decade-long issue arising from concerns that large US tech companies were making money ...