{"id":4403,"date":"2010-02-11T17:24:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T22:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4403"},"modified":"2011-02-17T14:57:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T19:57:40","slug":"global-bank-tax-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/02\/11\/global-bank-tax-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Global bank tax coming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4404\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/02\/bankroll-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"bankroll\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>British Prime Minister Gordon Brown\u00a0predicts a <a title=\"global bank tax\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ukpress\/article\/ALeqM5guRUUAx0F8uvaGeaK56dT4jT94fg\" target=\"_blank\">global bank tax<\/a> may by enacted as soon as this summer at the G-20 meeting of economic powers.\u00a0 Law Professor <a title=\"Daniel Berman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/berman_d.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Berman<\/a>,\u00a0director of the Graduate Tax Program and a former U.S. Treasury deputy international tax counsel, says establishing such a tax could be harder than it sounds.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;When I worked for the Joint Committee on Taxation of the U.S. Congress 20 years ago we tried to develop a Securities Transactions Excise Tax (STET), but we couldn\u2019t come up with a workable design. But if the same new tax is imposed globally, or at least across the G20, tax avoidance will be much more challenging.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Daniel Berman, 617-353-3105, <a href=\"mailto:bermand@bu.edu\">bermand@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Gordon Brown\u00a0predicts a global bank tax may by enacted as soon as this summer at the G-20 meeting of economic powers.\u00a0 Law Professor Daniel Berman,\u00a0director of the Graduate Tax Program and a former U.S. Treasury deputy international tax counsel, says establishing such a tax could be harder than it sounds. &#8220;When I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[706,2351,1102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4403"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8131,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions\/8131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}