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Newshour: 05/06/2021 12:06 GMT: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals

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05/06/2021 12:06 GMT

05/06/2021 12:06 GMT: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals

Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals

BBC World Service - Newshour, Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals

The G7 group of leading economies has reached a deal on taxing multinational companies

The G7 group of leading economies has reached a deal on taxing multinational companies.

The G-7 group of leading economies has reached a deal on taxing multinational companies. Finance ministers from the group, meeting in London, have agreed to a minimum tax of 15%, in a deal described by the British finance minister as an historic agreement to reform the global tax system.

Also in the programme: It's 40 years since the first case of AIDS was reported and; we hear an astonishing account of the suffering in the embattled Tigray region of Ethiopia from a photo journalist who's just returned from there.

(Picture: Britain's finance minister, Rishi Sunak (R) and David Malpass (L), president of the World Bank Group at the G7 summit in London, UK. Credit: EPA/HOLLIE ADAMS / POOL)

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