Ｇ２０財務相会議、国際課税協力で閣僚宣言　デジタル税加速、富裕層税も言及

　【リオデジャネイロ時事】２０カ国・地域（Ｇ２０）財務相・中央銀行総裁会議は２５日（日本時間２６日）、巨大ＩＴ企業を念頭にした「デジタル課税」の早期実施に向けて閣僚宣言を採択した。１日目の討議終了後、取材に応じた財務省の神田真人財務官が明らかにした。宣言は国際課税に関する協調を目指したもので、議長国ブラジルが重視する超富裕層への課税にも言及されているという。
　国際課税などに関する閣僚宣言の詳細は２６日（同２７日）に公表される予定。「デジタル課税」は巨大ＩＴなど国境を越えて活動する企業に対し、拠点がなくても、サービスが提供されている国に課税権を認める内容。２０２１年に導入が合意されたが、実施に必要な多数国間条約への各国政府の署名が遅れており、会議では作業を加速させる方針を確認した。（2024/07/26-11:26）

Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies on Thursday adopted a statement for the early implementation of digital services taxes, apparently with information technology behemoths in mind.
   Masato Kanda, Japan's vice finance minister for international affairs, told reporters after the first-day session of the two-day G-20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro that the statement was adopted with an objective of beefing up cooperation over international taxation.
   The statement mentions taxation on the uber-rich, which is pushed by Brazil, chair the G-20 meeting, according to Kanda. The details of the statement will be released Friday, when the two-day meeting ends.
   The digital service taxation framework aims to have IT giants and other companies operating across borders face taxes also in countries where they offer services but do not have business bases. The G-20 economies agreed in 2021 to implement such a taxation system.
   As there have been delays in the signing in many countries of a multilateral treaty needed for implementing the framework, the G-20 officials at Thursday's meeting agreed to speed up the process.