There are promises on tax avoidance and evasion, something promised by successive governments which is often easier to announce than to achieve.
Seven top Fifa officials were arrested in dawn raids at the Baur au Lac hotel on Wednesday and seven more were charged in the US over racketeering, money laundering and tax evasion.
The Tories have proposed reaching the same point through no tax rises, £12bn in welfare cuts and £5bn in corporate tax evasion revenues.
Alexander also used his Commons statement to outline plans to clamp down on tax evasion.
And the UK government has used every manner of evasion – including trying out the preposterous argument that because the term genocide was adopted by the UN in 1948, it couldn't be applied retrospectively.
"Fairness means that everyone should pay their taxes, zero tolerance of evasion and aggressive avoidance.
The G7 has plenty to talk about: Greece; Ukraine; the next set of development goals and how to finance them; climate change; trade; the weakness of the global recovery; how to engineer the exit from the zero interest rate environment of the past six years; combating systematic tax evasion; and tackling inequality.
"It's the first time in many of these leaks that there are really strong allegations not of egregious tax avoidance but of tax evasion, and that is incredibly serious," said Hodge.
The Greek government has told its eurozone creditors it has a novel way of tackling the country's chronic tax evasion culture – wiring students, tourists, and housewives for sound and video to spy on tax dodgers while posing as shoppers and customers.
Tsipras said he was launching a war on Greece's oligarchs and on tax evasion by the wealthy.
Conservatives (p11): "tackling tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance and tax planning is an important part of our long-term economic plan.
