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Research on Global Tax Governance under the Background of Digital Economy

by Jingyi Yang a ,  Xiaoyang Guo a  and  Yang Shen a,*
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School of Statistics, Institute of Quantitative Economics, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China
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REA  2024 3(1):28; https://doi.org/10.58567/rea03010006
Received: 20 February 2024 / Accepted: 27 March 2024 / Published Online: 1 April 2024
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Abstract

Under the background of digital economy, global tax governance has become one of the important topics in today's world development and change. In recent years, new challenges, such as tax base erosion and profit transfer, and the imbalance of cross-border tax source division, have become prominent, forcing the reform of international tax rules and the reshaping of international tax order. Based on this, the article first deeply digs into the scale and cross-border characteristics of the spatial-temporal aggregation of the digital economy, and comprehensively evaluates its impact on the global tax governance pattern. After that, the article combs out the realistic picture and challenges of the current digital tax reform from the aspects of theoretical basis, basic principles and governance mechanism. Finally, based on China's basic national conditions, the article puts forward some institutional ideas and policy suggestions, with a view to improving China's participation, voice and influence in global tax governance, and also enabling governments, enterprises and residents of various countries to enjoy the fruits of world economic development fairly and promote the construction of Community of Shared Future for Mankind.

Keywords: Global tax governance; Digital economy; Tax base co-construction; Profit sharing; BEPS;
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