Time for a look at the Business News now with tadhg enright. Luxmy gopal, thank you very much. We are going to talk about tax. A new report, funded by the european union, has found that the worlds super rich are still able to pay low rates of tax, despite decades of efforts to reduce evasion. The study says there are still too many loopholes and billionaires are able to pay less than 0. 5 of their wealth. The eu tax observatory, which is behind the report, is calling for a new global minimum tax on billionaires saying that if the richest 3,000 people in the world paid 2 , then it would raise 250 billion a year. Earlier, i spoke to Richard Murphy a Tax Reform Campaigner and professor of accounting practice, Sheffield University Management School and asked how feasible that would be. The good news in this report today is that a lot of measures that are being put in place which i campaigned for over the last 15 years are working. For example, tax havens are now causing one third of the ha
This is just off the coast. It looks like it wants to take a path around the golden gate and north. We will get mostly cloudy skies. It looked like south of the golden gate that may be in the mix. A little bit of rain toward mendocino and lake counties. 50s for temperatures. The breeze has died off. Lafayette at 49. Blackhawk at 50. Dublin at 52. Mostly cloudy skies if you are up north. I would expect rain as well. If you are in the south, partly sunny and mild with a south breeze. Temperatures will be in the 60s and some mid70s especially in the santa clara valley. I am ready in case the commute gets troublesome. Are you ready . I am ready. I have my coffee in hand. We are all set. Right now we do not see anything major. We have been following some of these commute. I want to start out with the solano on the super commute. If you are driving from dixon, vacaville, valeo, it does not look bad. Toka singh on fairfield and vacaville. Traffic on interstate 80 looks good although there are
This needs to move through. You can see the line. This needs to rotate around a big blow that has been giving us unseasonably cool temperatures. It looks like we bottomed out on temperatures yesterday. Today, a little rain to the north. It will be warmer with that south breeze. 60s and 70s. You are looking at your screen. Do you see something . I am studious because i am looking at a map of the crash that i will talk about in a moment. First we will talk about our friends in the tracy triangle on westbound 580. You can see slow traffic here as you drive to the area. This continues to be slow on 205 and 580. It will be a tough ride. As a matter of fact, it is taking time to get through that area. After that it should be okay if you are driving to livermore. We do not have any major problems there. I just found out, southbound 85 at saratoga. There is a crash here. This is an overturned vehicle blocking two lanes. Traffic will be slow as you head down south. This is typically a noncommut
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