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Zachary Halaschak of the Washington Examiner reports recent developments surrounding one of the Biden administration’s bad ideas.

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    Zachary Halaschak of the Washington Examiner reports recent developments surrounding one of the Biden administration's bad ideas.

  • While the Biden administration is hailing the commitment from the Group of Seven wealthy nations to a global minimum tax, actual implementation is still quite a way off on a path fraught with obstacles.
  • On Saturday, after meeting with the G-7, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced that the finance chiefs had agreed to move forward with a 15% global minimum tax, a policy that President Joe Biden has sought. Yellen called it an "unprecedented commitment," although many details have not been agreed to and dozens of more countries need to weigh in.
  • David Sacco, practitioner in residence at the University of New Haven finance department, said that the Saturday news was somewhat of a big deal in the sense that the G-7 countries were all able to agree on the 15% figure, although he pointed out that there are still a lot of details to be hammered out as to how a global minimum tax would be implemented and that it will likely be at least a couple of years before the plan would be effective - that is, if it even ends up being implemented.
  • The next step in the process is a G-20 meeting in Italy. The G-20 includes the seven wealthy and developed countries that agreed to the 15% concept but also others that might take a little more convincing. Some of the additional countries include China, India, Brazil, and South Africa.
  • "We'll have to convince the other great powers, especially the Asian ones. I am thinking in particular of China," said France's finance minister, Bruno Le Maire. "Let's face it, it's going to be a tough fight. I am optimistic that we will win it because the G-7 is giving us extremely powerful political momentum."
  • Furthermore, a majority of the approximately 140 countries involved in negotiations as part of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development will have to sign off on the plan.

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