
henever people urge action on the tax avoidance tactics beloved by tech giants and other multinationals their shills and defenders inevitably cry: “Wait for the OECD, they're sorting it out.”
The rich country club has been working on plans to reform the creaky international system governing corporate taxation for some time.
The reason for that cry, of course, is that waiting for it to get an agreement on the way forward is a bit like waiting for Godot.