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America last night swiftly torpedoed Gordon Brown's flagship plan for a new "bank tax". The PM announced his bold idea for the new tax to rake in £200billion a year from banks across the world at the G20 summit of finance ministers in St Andrews. Full Article at Mirror.co.uk
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He said such a tax would be in line with a proposal at the weekend by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who urged world governments to consider imposing a levy on banks. Full Article at International Business Times
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called on the G20 to consider a tax on financial transactions to fund future bailouts and make banks more accountable to society. Full Article at ABC Online
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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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In the last couple of months or so the major banks have been raising term funding without the use of the guarantee. And to some extent the pricing mechanism that we put in encourages that to happen
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But I just would make this point - that it [the proposal] was raised in the context of countries where there had been massive bail-outs of the banking system. And that has not been the case in our country
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A day-by-day financial transaction tax is not something we are prepared to support
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We should discuss whether we need a better economic and social contract to reflect the global responsibilities of financial institutions to society
