G7 agrees to tax big firms and squeeze havens
The G7 reached a landmark deal on Saturday (June 5) to pursue higher global taxation on multinational businesses such as Google, Apple and Amazon.And Facebook - which said it welcomed the deal and accepted this could mean it would pay more tax.The United States, Britain and five other leading advanced economies agreed to back a minimum global corporate rate of at least 15% and for companies to pay more tax in the markets where they sell goods and services.It's a step that could raise hundreds of billions of dollars to help them cope with the aftermath of the past year's economic turm...