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The United States and the Group of Seven nations have agreed on a plan to exempt U.S. companies from parts of a major global tax deal, a move set to reshape international tax stability.
The agreement, announced on Saturday from Canada, follows Washington’s decision to remove Section 899, a controversial retaliatory tax included in President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill.
Under the new "side-by-side" system, U.S. firms escape some burdens of the 2021 global corporate minimum tax deal, which had been brokered under the Biden administration with nearly 140 countries. Trump, however, withdrew from it in January through an executive order, arguing that the U.S. should not be bound by it.
Britain hailed the new agreement as a victory for business certainty. UK finance minister Rachel Reeves said companies would benefit from stability after concerns about steep tax increases. She also stressed the ongoing need to combat aggressive tax avoidance.
Section 899 had alarmed British and other European businesses, who feared extra costs if retaliatory taxes took effect on U.S. soil.
The G7 said the new plan acknowledges existing U.S. minimum tax laws and aims to reduce global tax conflicts. Officials called for further talks to find a solution "acceptable and implementable to all."
Trump had threatened a retaliatory tax on countries taxing U.S. firms under the global deal, a move seen as harmful to many foreign businesses operating in America.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has survived two attempts to remove her from office after the European Parliament rejected no-confidence motions from hard-right and left-wing groups on Thursday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met today to discuss the December 2024 aviation tragedy involving an Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft, as well as to reaffirm the strength of their bilateral relationship.
Colombian President Gustavo Pietro has said that the last boat bombed by the Trump led administration was a Colombian vessel carrying Colombian citizens.
Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "compelling and visionary oeuvre" that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art," according to the Swedish Academy.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, hailed their countries’ new trade deal during talks in Mumbai, with London unveiling £1.3 billion in new Indian investments and both leaders pledging deeper cooperation in technology and education.
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