Push to give UN more say on global tax rules likely to stumble at vote

António Guterres has said boosting the UN’s role appears to be ‘the most viable path to making international tax cooperation fully inclusive’. Photograph: Caitlin Ochs/Reuters

A long-running campaign for the United Nations to have greater influence over international tax rules is expected to fall at the last hurdle in a vote in New York on Wednesday with the US, Brussels and the UK blocking the move.

Anti-poverty campaigners said the UN must have a say on taxing multinational corporations to prevent widespread avoidance that denies poor countries vital revenues to tackle poverty and cope with the climate crisis.