Sam Fleming

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105 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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FT News Briefing · China’s President Xi visits North Korea to talk nuclear programme · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

And this isn't really any realistic prospect of that happening.

But it's also very clear that the administration would take a very dim view of countries going it alone when it comes to imposing their own digital services taxes.

We saw in the example of Canada when there was a proposal to introduce a tech tax policy.

Last year, ultimately, there was a threat of retaliatory tariffs and it was revoked.

So you've seen the administration willing to throw its weight around when it comes to countries that look at this area on a unilateral basis.

I think it has to, yeah.

sector is being dominated by massive U.S.

corporations as well.

Their services will be used all over the world.

That also will begin to raise questions about how that activity is taxed.

We're also seeing another part of the OECD agenda is this idea of so-called digital nomads, people who will

basically go and live where they want and then offer their digital services to all over the world as life becomes more electronic and more disconnected from physical bricks and mortar.

I guess there is this question about how tax systems need to evolve to catch up with that.

Thank you.

FT News Briefing · War, inflation and how central banks are handling it all · 1 May 2026 podcast

To an extent, the price rises are inevitable because the increase in energy price is immediately going to start getting reflected

in fuel prices and potentially prices of food and other commodities.

So we would expect a movement in headline inflation in any case.

What the central bankers are more looking for is whether there are so-called second round effects.

So does this start to affect wage setting?

Does it start to affect the wages that workers demand?

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