Just been briefed by Obama’s team. The message is this. However we tackled tax havens in the past is not the way we will do
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What we got
This has been an extraordinary afternoon — and one where it has been hard to blog. Gordon Brown declared the end of the Washington Consensus
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A world first
I got a question in to Gordon Brown at the PM’s press conference this afternoon. It’s a minor first but I’ll claim it. I’ve just
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Latest word
Just had another briefing. The communiqu?© is strong. Sarkozy can live with it. But no ‘black list’. Although time scales to avoid being on one
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The OECD may not be enough
Fascinating noises coming out from the discussions. One of the reasons why we won’t be getting a tax haven listing today is, I understand, that
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Update from Stephen Timms
The briefing from Stephen Timms was positive. He clearly expects a result on tax havens. He said there was ‘lively discussion’ — for which read
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Bob Geldoff says it’s time to close tax havens
Peston says tax havens are done and dusted
Robert Peston has said on the BBC that tax havens are done and dusted. God knows who he is talking to. I’m not getting that
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Next step: automatic information exchange
From this morning’s FT: Richard Murphy of the Tax Justice Network, a campaigning group, says that agreements from tax havens to provide data on suspected
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