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10/14/2021

READOUT: Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen’s Meeting with G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors…

READOUT: Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen’s Meeting
with G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors
October 13, 2021

WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen participated in a meeting of the G20
Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors today. They discussed a range of topics,
including the current macroeconomic conditions, further progress on reforms to
international taxation, coordination on vaccine distribution and longer-term pandemic
preparedness, e orts within the G20 Finance Track on climate change mitigation, and
financial regulatory issues.
Secretary Yellen and her counterparts also continued productive discussions about
international tax. Secretary Yellen noted the landmark agreement of virtually the entire
global economy to end the race to the bottom on corporate taxation, and how 136 nations,
representing 94% of the world’s GDP – including all 20 nations in the G20 – agreed to a new
and specific set of provisions to uniformly tax the income of multinational companies,
including a global minimum tax. Secretary Yellen reiterated her and President Biden’s focus
on ensuring democracies can deliver for our people. She noted that this deal will mobilize
the resources for the global economy to address climate change and reduce economic
inequality, protect American jobs from the race to the bottom, and deliver for the middle
class and working people at home and all over the world.
Secretary Yellen expressed that she is will continue to productively and constructively work
with Congress to include provisions in the reconciliation bill to complement our aspirations
for this revolutionized international tax regime.
Along with her counterparts, Secretary Yellen endorsed the G20 Finance Ministers and
Central Bank Governors’ communiqué here: G20-FMCBG-Communiqué-Fourth-G20-FMCBGmeeting-13-October-2021.pdf

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