Over a two-hour breakfast of tea and pastries at the Hotel Amigo in Brussels in July, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen tried to persuade Paschal Donohoe, the Irish finance minister, to abandon Ireland’s rock bottom corporate tax rate and join the global deal the Biden administration was racing to clinch.

Pastries and persuasion: How a global tax deal got done

G20 endorses historic global tax reform overhauling the way multinational companies are taxed. The move would prevent nations from competing to offer lowest tax rates, with a minimum corporate tax set at 15%.

Global Tax Reform: G20's move to deter tax havens

G20 finance ministers on Saturday gave their backing to a historic deal to overhaul the way multinational companies are taxed, and urged hold-out countries to get on board.

G20 endorses historic global tax reform

G20 finance ministers meeting in Venice on Friday and Saturday could rally the world's top economies behind a global plan to tax multinationals more fairly, already hashed out among 130 countries representing 90 percent of world output.

World Business Watch: G20 ministers to vote on global tax reform plan this week