2210 Tax on foreign exchange transactions

An FTT is most suitable for such a venture for two reasons.

CAMBRIDGE European leaders are seriously considering a Tobin tax, which would put a small levy on financial transactions, thereby dampening trading.

Consider, for example, a tax of 0.25 applied to all cross border financial transactions.

A leading policymaker in the Anglo American empire of finance actually came out in support of a Tobin tax a global tax on financial transactions.

The emotional appeal of a tax on all financial transactions is undeniable.

Revenue estimates for a small tax on international currency transactions run into hundreds of billions of dollars per year.

Another possibility is that the Europeans concluded that an FTT s political advantages outweigh its economic flaws.

Subject to the limitations discussed in the following paragraph, the secured transactions law would apply to security interests in intellectual property rights.

Existing proposals include a Robin Hood tax on financial transactions, a share of the profits from the EU s carbon emissions trading scheme, or a larger take from value added tax receipts.

CAMBRIDGE European leaders are seriously considering a Tobin tax, which would put a small levy on financial transactions, thereby dampening trading. But will the tax do as much as its proponents hope?

With this battle won, the next worthy goal is a global financial transaction tax.

But the FTT, despite its noble intellectual lineage, is no solution to Europe s problems or to the world s.

The third aim could be achieved country by country, but it is certainly arguable that an across the board banking levy, or a Europe wide financial transaction tax, would eliminate competitive distortions.

As a bonus, an FTT will curb destabilizing speculation in financial markets.

As a result, the ultimate revenue gains are likely to prove disappointing, as Sweden discovered when it attempted to tax financial transactions two decades ago.

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It is time for an international tax on bank profits perhaps implemented as a levy on international financial transactions which would raise tens of billions of dollars each year.

True, great thinkers like John Maynard Keynes and the late Nobel laureate James Tobin floated various ideas for taxing financial transactions as a way to reduce economic volatility.

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Moreover, a high corporate tax rate is an ineffective and costly tool for producing revenues, owing to innovative financial transactions and legal tax avoidance mechanisms.

Under the FairTax, the federal government would be able to concentrate tax enforcement efforts on a single tax.

For example, a so called Tobin tax on financial transactions is a frequently proposed solution, but it is not a policy solution that could be implemented by corporate law judges.

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In addition, the Royal Military Police, which controls and guards Dutch borders, reports any suspicious situations directly to the national police unit that analyses unusual transactions.

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CAMBRIDGE Something happened in late August that I never thought I would see in my lifetime. A leading policymaker in the Anglo American empire of finance actually came out in support of a Tobin tax a global tax on financial transactions.

Unfortunately, much as FTTs are the darling of leading liberal economic commentators and Robin Hood NGOs, they are an extremely misguided approach to achieving such worthy ends.

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(d) Simplification of the administration of transaction and lower transaction costs.

We propose an education investment bank to be established with the cooperation of the GPE and major international investment banks, capitalized in part by proceeds from a financial transaction tax (FTT), such as that proposed for the European Union.

After all, there certainly is a case to be made that an FTT has so much gut level popular appeal that politically powerful financial interests could not block it.

Developing nations should also push for a Tobin tax a tax on global foreign currency transactions.

More broadly, FTTs violate the general public finance principle that it is inefficient to tax intermediate factors of production, particularly ones that are highly mobile and fluid in their response.

Personal income tax would be reviewed, company tax breaks rationalized and basic goods exempted from VAT.