The FTT tax battle in the EU reminds me of tax wars in the U.S. now.
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They will continue short-selling bans, push for FTT and harsher regulations on banks and trading.
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You need mutual deterrence, so no one can do FTT unless everyone does it.
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The UK has an FTT but it only falls upon stock purchases (and sales).
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Most FTT sponsors suggest using FTT revenues for social ambitions rather than a bank safety net.
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In the case of an FTT it will be consumers everywhere plus workers everywhere.
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An FTT is feasible but then so are many things that are not desirable.
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Rather than ACORN arguing for sub-prime mortgages, nurses and the AFL-CIO are pushing a FTT.
Yes, a Tobin Tax (or a financial transactions tax, or FTT) would indeed kill HFT.
Taxers want to slow liquidity down with FTT so they can understand it better.
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The FTT aims to raise public funds and encourage more responsible trading by financial institutions.
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They just released a big report about how they would like to have an FTT.
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The argument usually given in a lot of the pro-FTT literature is that speculation increases volatility.
An FTT would not have prevented either the Great Financial Crash or current sovereign debt problems.
This could backfire and cause companies, hedge funds, traders and investors to move out of the Euro-FTT-zone.
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Sweden tried to have an FTT and most of the business moved to London in the 1990s.
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New Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti included a FTT in his new crisis-era austerity and budget measures.
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The G-20 told the Germans and French no at every recent meeting when they proposed the FTT.
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Secretary Geithner keeps reminding all that FTT hurts retail investors, pension funds, farmers and hedgers, more than banks.
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With current miniscule interest yields on government bonds, an FTT is now a more terrible idea than before.
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The latest little piece of nonsense from them is over a new IMF report into the FTT.
But these were not frequently traded exotica at all and would thus be entirely unaffected by an FTT.
We are left with a tug of war and power politics over FTT.
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Both the IMF and the CEO of Deutsche Bank have said a regional FTT would be feasible, added Oxfam.
To watch the financial transactions tax (FTT) being discussed is to be reminded of piglets at swill bucket time.
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Taiwan FTT: 1973 was the first time they introduced the tax, result: the market fell 63% within a year.
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The German FTT plan is scheduled to be effective in 2013 or 2014.
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To prevent evasion of their FTT, the Germans designed it with global reach.
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Rangers disputed this and a First Tier Tax Tribunal (FTT) ruled the scheme did not breach tax law.
Not that I expect anyone supporting the FTT to admit to that logic.
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