Biden’s minimal international tax a more durable sale in G-7 Congress

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s weekend deal with G-7 colleagues over a global minimum corporate tax framework has created a more difficult sales task for President Joe Biden’s proposed changes to US tax law.

LISTEN: Bloomberg Congress reporter Laura Davison discusses Biden’s minimum foreign tax with Paul Allen and Bryan Curtis on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia.

The G-7 has committed itself to striving for a worldwide minimum tax rate of “at least 15%”. That leaves a potential loophole on the 21 percent rate Biden put in Congress for US corporation’s overseas-recorded earnings. Any discrepancy could mean that American firms are effectively paying a premium on profits in some countries.

“It is very difficult and maybe impossible to get 15% for …