Irish Finance Minister Talks Digital Economy, Tax Simplification

Ireland supports a multilateral agreement on taxing the digital economy if it can be “broadly adopted and implemented in an efficient manner,” Deputy Prime Minister Simon Harris said Friday.

“I will continue to lend my support to constructive engagements to solve such issues — at the EU, OECD and G20,” said Harris, who is also Ireland’s finance minister. He noted multilateral discussions on digital-economy taxation are to resume in coming months.

Sorting the issue out through global negotiations would “avoid a situation where a proliferation of uncoordinated unilateral measures are established, with disputes inevitably arising from such measures,” he said ...