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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I know I just interviewed him in front of about 80 cameras on the issue. Mildly surreal.

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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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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Tax havens were the one thing on which there was meant to be guaranteed delivery at the G20. Right now the tax haven paragraph of
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Three reasons so far: 1) Bumped into Jon Snow from Channel 4 and got 6 of us blogger interviewed foirstr thing this morning 2) Met
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I have seen reliable evidence this morning that UK government spokespeople are saying that I have stated that automatic information exchange is not important at
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From the Wall Street Journal Governments of the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations are nearing agreement on measures aimed at cracking open secretive
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From the Independent: In a move that appeared to be timed to coincide with pressure by President Nicolas Sarkozy for a G20 agreement on curbs
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