Finance ministers from the G7 wealthy democracies are expected to endorse Washington's proposal for an ambitious global corporate minimum tax when they meet in London later this week, a U.S. Treasury official said on Wednesday.
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Cannabis companies received a boost after Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) said it would support federal marijuana legalization efforts. Sundial Growers (NASDAQ: SNDL) and Tilray (NASDAQ: TLRY) rose 13% and 12%, respectively, on the news.
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British finance minister Rishi Sunak said a U.S. proposal to focus on the world's 100 biggest and most profitable firms as part of a global tax deal could work but he insisted that big tech firms must pay more tax in countries where they operate.
Amazon is testing its front-line staff in Britain for coronavirus variants and feeding the data to public health officials, including in hotspots where a strain first found in India is spreading fast.
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Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Wednesday a multilateral agreement on the taxation of tech giants was "within reach" and it should go hand in hand with a deal on a global minimum corporate tax rate.
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Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) sixth annual members-only event -- Prime Day 2021 -- will officially take place on June 21 and 22, the company announced in a press release on Wednesday, "kicking off with two days of epic deals and the best savings Prime has to offer." Prime Day has becom
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A global tax crackdown on multinationals has the backing of some of the world's biggest investors who say that using low-tax jurisdictions falls foul of the tenets they have committed to.
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A global tax crackdown on multinationals has the backing of some of the world's biggest investors who say that using low-tax jurisdictions falls foul of the tenets they have committed to.