Guide

A Guide for Developing Countries on How to Understand and Adapt to the Global Minimum Tax

This guide provides policy-makers in developing countries with a simple framework to understand how the 15% global minimum corporate tax may affect them and how to adapt domestic tax policy in response.

By Allison Christians, Thomas Lassourd, Kudzai Mataba, Eniye Ogbebor, Alexandra Readhead, Stephen Shay, Zach Pouga Tinhaga on April 24, 2023

 

A global minimum tax has great potential to combat tax competition and help governments collect their fair share of revenue from multinational corporations. The world has never seen a concept like the proposed 15% global corporate tax that has garnered support from more than 140 nations.

At least two dozen countries are preparing to implement the 15% minimum tax on worldwide corporate income in 2024. In response, many nations will need to adapt their domestic policies to protect their tax base. This is especially true of developing economies and in cases where incentives have lowered tax rates below the global minimum rate.

A Guide for Developing Countries on How to Understand and Adapt to the Global Minimum Tax provides policy-makers in developing countries with a simple framework to understand the global minimum tax, how it may affect their economies, and how to adapt their domestic tax policy in response to these new tax rules under Pillar Two of the Global Anti-Base Erosion (GloBE) initiative advanced by the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS.

This guide is co-published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development and the International Senior Lawyers Project.

Guide details

Topic
Taxation
Governance and Multilateral Agreements
Investment Law & Policy
Focus area
Economies
Publisher
IISD and ISLP
Copyright
IISD and ISLP, 2023