G-20 finance chiefs meet for talks on uneven recovery, int'l tax

The finance chiefs of the Group of 20 major economies gathered Friday in Italy for two-day talks to address an increasingly uneven economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and to push for plans that would keep multinational companies from evading taxes by shifting their profits overseas.It is the first such in-person meeting since the pandemic accelerated early last year, and is taking place at a time when concern is growing over unequal access to coronavirus vaccines, a situation leading to diverging recoveries between countries.Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso and U.S. Treasury S…READ FULL ARTICLE