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1/2: #POTUS: In the possible event of a Biden-Harris sweep of 2024: 1/2: #Bestof2021: The Taxman always rings twice: 2/2: The New Global Taxman. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution. (Originally posted June 14, 2021) https://www.hoover.org/research/sorti

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1/2: #POTUS: In the possible event of a Biden-Harris sweep of 2024: 1/2: #Bestof2021: The Taxman always rings twice: 2/2: The New Global Taxman. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution. (Originally posted June 14, 2021)
https://www.hoover.org/research/sorting-out-global-tax-mess

The Group of Seven (G-7)—Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States—met last week in Cornwall, England. High on its agenda was establishing basic agreement on three major proposals for remaking the international tax system, whose structure looms ever larger in today’s global economy. event

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0:33.2

not only the IRS, but global taxes in the news because Janet Yellen and the G7 finance ministers

0:40.7

have been discussing global taxes in several iterations and the G7 itself meeting in Europe in Great

0:47.3

Britain, discussing a minimum tax. That's one of the presentations by the finance ministers.

0:53.6

I welcome Richard Epstein, Professor Richard Epstein, teaches law at NYU in the University of Chicago.

0:59.6

And I learned that Richard has been writing about taxes for 50 years. So pending Edmund Burke

1:05.6

showing up, Richard will do for an overall view of how we've gone through several administrations,

1:11.6

always making tax adjustments that are then adjusted again. Richard, is it a senior fellow at the

1:17.3

Hoover Institution? Richard, a very good evening to you. The presentation by the finance ministers of

1:23.2

G7 finance ministers, including Janet Yellen, former chairman of the Federal Reserve now Secretary of

1:28.5

the Treasury, is three parts to my reading. And I go quickly through one a tax rate on the 100

1:37.2

largest multinationals on earth. That is not enamedless, but we can guess if some of them, too,

1:44.6

a minimum tax, global minimum tax on corporations, and three, a digital tax on companies,

1:52.4

corporations, multinationals that do business in a country without a presence in the country.

1:57.7

Google would be an example advertising. I want to start with the global minimum tax because that

2:03.2

has come up again in headlines from the G7 meeting. It's 15% is the number they're using,

2:09.4

but as I understand it, there are countries higher, there are countries lower. So what is your

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