UN Tax Experts Group Advised to Support Other Major Policy Efforts

A United Nations tax policy panel is being urged to avoid duplicating other organizations’ global tax overhaul projects even as it develops guidance to ease the cost and complexity of those projects.

The UN committee of tax experts is setting its own agenda in the increasingly crowded field of international tax rulemaking.

Interest groups say the committee will have to steer a path that’s mindful of two major tax policy coordination efforts: the global tax agreement led by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the negotiations underway at another UN committee to shape a framework convention, or treaty, ...