US Mulling Taxing Digital Economy After Global Minimum Tax Pact

It’s time to step back and assess prior work undertaken at the OECD to tax the digital economy, a top US Treasury Department official said.

The comments by Rebecca Burch, the Treasury deputy assistant secretary for international tax affairs, came in response to a question on Thursday at the 2025 DC Bar Tax Conference, over how the Trump administration views the status of Pillar One of global tax pact.

Burch said there was always an appetite by the United States to return to taxing the digital economy, now that the US was able to secure an deal to exempt ...