Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg accepts that social networking company may have to pay more taxes in different countries. Cross-border tax rules are set to be rewritten after 137 states sought last month to avoid a new trade war over the global multiplication of taxes on digital services. "I understand that there's frustration about how tech companies are taxed in Europe. We also want tax reform and I'm glad the OECD is looking at this."
Government officials agreed to negotiate new rules for where tax should be paid and what share of profit should be taxed when big digital and other consumer-facing businesses do not have a physical presence in the market, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said last month.