German minister wants speedy crackdown on tax avoidance


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  • Friday, 10 Jan 2014

Norbert-Walter Borjans, Finance Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, gestures during a Reuters interview at the NRW federal state parliament in Duesseldorf May 16, 2013. SWISS/DATATHEFT REUTERS/Ina Fassbender

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany should consider its own measures to crack down on tax avoidance by global firms like Google and Amazon if an international initiative to tackle the problem does not produce results by the autumn, an influential state minister said.

Last year leaders of the G20 group of nations asked the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to make recommendations for addressing corporate tax avoidance.

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