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8:59am UK, Sunday November 08, 2009 Katie Cassidy, Sky News Online Pressure is growing on Gordon Brown over his handling of the economic crisis after the US treasury secretary rejected the PM's plans for a 'bank tax'. Full Article at Sky News
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British PM backpedals on proposed financial transactions taxUnited States led a backlash against the so-called "Tobin tax"Russia, Canada, IMF and European Central Bank also criticized plan Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, rapidly backpedaled... Full Article at CNN
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Levying a "transaction tax" on the frenzied activities of City traders and their rivals in the world's financial markets is not a new idea, but it may be one whose time has come. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Within hours of Mr Brown's speech, both the US and Canada rejected the plan Photo: EPA The Prime Minister used a speech at a meeting of G20 finance ministers in St Andrews to call for the new tax to fund future bank bailouts – despite previous... Full Article at The Telegraph
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Gordon Brown has raised the possibility of a new global tax on banks as a repayment for the billions of pounds of taxpayers money they have received. Full Article at Times Online
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That is not something that we're prepared to support.
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A day-by-day financial transaction tax is not something we are prepared to support
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It is not something we would be interested in in Canada. We are not in the business of raising taxes, we are in the business of lowering taxes in Canada. It is not an idea we would look at.
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I do not in any way underestimate the enormous and difficult practical and technical issues that will need to be overcome that a globally cohesive system requires and raises
