Gordon Brown has claimed his visit to the US this week has put him on the verge of winning international agreement on principles for banking regulation to put to the G20 summit on 2 April.
Addressing the Scottish Labour party conference, he is expected to highlight plans to crackdown on countries that refuse to co-operate on tax havens, possibly by putting them on an OECD blacklist, The Guardian reports The Brown team noted that in his speech to Congress, he won loudest support when he called for closure of tax havens and unregulated shadow banking. See full story… The world's most secretive tax havens are to be prised open after Barack Obama's new administration endorsed far-reaching legislation to crack down on them, The Guardian says. The decision to force "secrecy jur...
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