OECD's Digital Tax Proposal

Kat Saunders Gregor, Ropes & Gray tax partner and co-founder of the firm's tax controversy group, discusses the OECD's digital tax proposal as well as actions being taken by several countries to pass digital services taxes of their own.

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I'm Kat Gregor, and I am a tax partner in Ropes & Gray's Boston office, and co-founder of the tax controversy group. Today, we're going to talk about the OECD's digital tax proposal and the unilateral action being taken by several countries, including France, to pass digital services taxes of their own. Over the last several years, the OECD and the EU, as well as many countries have started looking more closely at the way in which the international tax system is set up, fundamentally thinking about how different countries are entitled to tax the profits of multinational corporations. In particular, countries have become focused on whether or not they're entitled to a fair share of the profit of a large,