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11 Mar 2010
The prime minister has basked away from the possibility of introducing a Tobin tax, despite current EU sentiment for a tax on financial services transactions.
Gordon Brown told the City yesterday that the UK "could not act in a vacuum" on introducing such a tax, and any revenues from such a tax should be for the national government to use, reported the FT.
Current thinking is that a levies on individual banks are a more attractive option.
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