Prime minister predicts financial deal by G20 in June

A global bank tax could soon be agreed by the world's leading economies as a response to last year's financial crisis, Gordon Brown said today.

"Support is building" for a deal to potentially tax the international financial services sector to the tune of tens of billions of pounds, the prime minister said in an interview in today's Financial Times.

Brown said he hoped a deal would be hammered out at the G20 summit in ­Canada in June, glossing over the ­possibility that he may not be in charge by then.
guardian.co.uk
By Helen Pidd