The U.S., Europe and other countries are split on how to tax digital businesses, threatening a rush to impose unilateral charges at a time of rising tensions between the major economies.
Finance ministers from the Group of 20 largest economies will discuss ways to increase taxes from the digital economy during a meeting in Buenos Aires next week. But a report prepared ahead of that gathering by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which helms a global effort to improve tax rules, said there were “a number...