GOP, Chamber Ramp Up Pressure on Treasury Over OECD Tax Deal

Republicans and one of the largest spenders on lobbying kept up a pressure campaign on the Treasury Department, urging global tax deal negotiators to reexamine key provisions of the deal and seek input from Congress.

Ways and Means Reps. Carol Miller (R-W.Va.) and Ron Estes (R-Kan.) blasted Treasury for its role in negotiating the OECD agreement in a new letter sent Monday to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. The continued focus comes on the heels of the US Chamber of Commerce calling on Congress to address some of the deal’s thorniest provisions, and the interrogation of a Treasury official at ...