UK sends officials to Washington to drum up IMF support for Tobin Tax

Reported by Telegraph.co.uk on Friday, 13 November 2009 (on November 13, 2009)

Gordon Brown has sent two senior Treasury officials to Washington in an effort to win the International Monetary Fund round to the controversial idea of a tax on all financial transactions.

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