{"id":6048,"date":"2010-02-11T17:48:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T15:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=6048"},"modified":"2010-02-11T17:48:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T15:48:47","slug":"global-bank-tax-near-says-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/02\/11\/global-bank-tax-near-says-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Global bank tax near, says Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/23a35d16-1692-11df-aa09-00144feab49a.html\">FT.com \/ UK - Global bank tax near, says Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The FT notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gordon Brown said on Wednesday the world&rsquo;s leading economies were close to agreeing a global bank tax, amid hopes in Downing Street that a deal can be concluded at the G20 summit in Canada in June.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Brown believes that opinion has shifted decisively in favour of a globally co-ordinated tax after President Barack Obama&rsquo;s move last month to raise $90bn (\u00a357.7bn) from a US bank levy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"floating-con\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Let's hope it's a financial transaction tax then - a levy would kill off parts of the banking industry in a wholly unhelpful way. Financial transaction taxes won't.<\/p>\n<p>Which is a pretty important issue to take into account, I suggest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FT.com \/ UK &#8211; Global bank tax near, says Brown. The FT notes: Gordon Brown said on Wednesday the world&rsquo;s leading economies were close to<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/02\/11\/global-bank-tax-near-says-brown\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transaction-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}