 Consider financial deals tax ST ANDREWS (Scotland) - BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on the G-20 here Saturday to consider a tax on financial transactions among other measures to make banks more accountable to society. Reported by Straits Times 55 minutes ago. |
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