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Lukewarm reaction to UK tax plan

Source: BBC
London : United Kingdom | 18 days ago  
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To rule out any possibility of change on one day wouldn't be right...Mr Brown said a global levy on financial transactions was one of the ways to make banks pay but said the UK would not introduce such a tax unless other countries did so as well.
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