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  Angela Merkel urges David Cameron to crack down on tax havens
  
  The two leaders also discussed EU trade during talks in Berlin
  
  Prime minister David Cameron, left, signs the guestbook as German Chancellor
  
  Angela Merkel, right, looks on inside the government's guest house Schloss Meseberg.
  
  The coalition's plans to crack down on Britain's tax havens were discussed at a meeting
  
  between David Cameron and chancellor Angela Merkel, amid growing concerns in
  
  Germany. Merkel is understood to have had questions about the monitoring of British
  
  sovereign territories used as tax havens by the rich.
  
  The German public has been alarmed in recent weeks about reports of its citizens using
  
  havens to avoid paying taxes at home, and the matter has become an electoral issue.
  
  But sources close to Cameron said that he was first to raise the future of the territories
  
  in order to spell out how his government was cracking down on tax avoidance in places
  
  such as Jersey and Guernsey.
  
  A Downing Street spokesman said the prime minister was keen, ahead of June's G8
  
  summit in Northern Ireland, to stress that the UK and others "should show global
  
  leadership by taking concrete action on tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance
  
  and making clear that everyone must pay their fair share of taxes".
  
  Finance Johnnies and Right wingers will not be amused..............

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