Minimum tax: EU implements OECD model

It is seen as a political success for today’s German Chancellor Olaf Scholz: The international agreement on a system of minimum taxation, which should also make specific digital taxes superfluous. Today, the EU Commission is presenting the European approach to implementing the system – and could also claim some of the revenue for the EU from it.

How can large international companies be effectively persuaded to pay appropriate taxes? This question has been on the minds of many for years. And not least in the European Union, where some states use tax structuring schemes to profit disproportionately from the profits of companies in other countries.

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