A group of 136 countries on Friday set a minimum global tax rate of 15% for big companies and sought to make it harder for them to avoid taxation in a landmark deal that U.S. President Joe Biden said levelled the playing field.
Reporting by Leigh Thomas; Additional reporting by Christian Kraemer in Berlin, Elizabeth Piper and Mark John in London and David Lawder and Patricia Zengerle in Washington; Megan Davies in New York and Chavi Mehta in Bangalore; Editing by Alexander Smith and Rosalba O’Brien (Reuters )
