The US has withdrawn from UN discussions on a new Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation.
The decision was announced by Jonathan Shrier, the Acting US Representative to the UN Economic and Social Council, during the meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on the UN Framework Convention on 3 February 2025.
“The US takes this opportunity to state firmly and clearly that the goals of a future UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation are inconsistent with US priorities and represent unwelcome overreach. We do not plan to participate further in this organisational session, process, or negotiating United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation text,” Shrier said.
In response to the withdrawal, Tove Maria Ryding, Tax Coordinator at the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad) said, “In recent weeks, we have seen the US leave the OECD tax processes and UN processes related to climate and health. As such, it seemed a bit strange when the US showed up at the UN Tax Convention negotiations yesterday. But they had apparently just come to say goodbye. While the US called for other countries to leave the UN Tax Convention negotiations with them, nobody did and they had to walk out alone.”
