An agreement at the OECD on pillar I (digital taxation) and pillar II (minimum taxation) of international tax reform would be far preferable to any other alternative, said Benjamin Angel, Director for Direct Taxation in the Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation (DG TAXUD), before MEPs on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) on Monday 13 July.
The EU has a “tactical interest” in keeping the two pillars in one package, he said. This would, in his view, be...