What the House International Tax Plan Would Do (Podcast)

Sept. 24, 2021, 8:45 AM UTC

The House Ways and Means Committee passed a proposal last week to revamp the way U.S. multinationals pay taxes—but to a lesser extent than other Democratic plans on the table.

The proposal—part of a broader tax package to help fund Democrats’ planned spending of up to $3.5 trillion—would increase the minimum tax on U.S. companies’ foreign income and get tougher in other ways on those that do business overseas. It is more modest in some respects than what President Joe Biden and Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee have proposed.

On this episode of our weekly Talking Tax podcast, senior reporter Michael Rapoport discusses the House plan with Craig Hillier, the Americas international tax and transaction tax services leader for accounting firm EY. Hillier explains the details of the House proposal and discusses its chances in a narrowly divided Congress. He also talks about how the plan meshes with the pending global tax overhaul agreement among countries at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Listen to the episode here.

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To contact the reporter on this story: Michael Rapoport at mrapoport@bloombergindustry.com

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Patrick Ambrosio at pambrosio@bloombergtax.com

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