Alexei Kudrin, Russia’s finance minister, said he was ”sceptical” and dismissed Mr Brown as someone ”known for always raising taxes”.
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Dominique Strauss Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, repeated his view the tax was “a very old idea that is not really possible today”.
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Tim Geithner, the US Treasury secretary delivered the coup-de-grace. “A day-by-day financial transaction tax is not something we are prepared to support,” he insisted. The US thinks examples of the tax, including the UK’s 0.5 per cent “stamp duty” on share transactions have a “mixed” history.
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Way to go, Gordon. I mean, way to GO.
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