Other initiatives under active consideration include global taxes on: gasoline, multinational corporations, carbon dioxide emissions, "securities transactions" and "portfolio investments, " use of air corridors and maritime shipping and currency transactions.
One of the issues being tossed around is a Tobin tax on currency transactions.
By Zimbabwean law, all official foreign-currency transactions must go through the central bank.
For example, UN types have already begun discussing levies on energy purchases, carbon emissions, international corporate activity and currency transactions.
For more than a decade, forum-goers have been pushing the idea of the Tobin Tax - a tax on international currency transactions.
The report laid out a timeline for the family's currency transactions.
Transactions on the currency markets are not expected to be included.
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Since the mechanism of a currency transactions levy is supposed to be based on taxing the net position of foreign exchange transactions, it could represent a restriction of the free movement of capital and payments (Article 63 TFEU).
As things stand now, however, our only hope of avoiding such ominously precedential "solidarity contributions" - whether they be imposed on airline tickets, currency transactions, international commerce or the internet - is for your view to be faithfully, articulately and effectively represented at the UN.
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Among the tax options on the table, which also include a global financial transaction fee (called a "Tobin tax" after Nobel-winning economist James Tobin, who proposed a tax on foreign-currency transactions in the 1970s) and a Bonus Tax, a risk-based fee is the most efficient solution.
In October 2010, Mantega raised a financial transactions tax on local currency bonds twice in one week.
In early 2011, shortly after the Carnaval celebrations in March, Mantega raised taxes on other currency and credit transactions as the real bulked up yet again to BRL1.65.
The Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 (or BSA, or otherwise known as the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act) requires financial institutions in the United States to assist U.S. government agencies to detect and prevent money laundering.
Bergquist says Facebook takes a 30% cut of the transactions conducted with its Credits virtual currency.
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Visa charges its customers about 1% of the total dollar value of international transactions as cross border fees and currency conversion fees.
Currently, transactions within the shadow economy have to be made face to face, but an electronic System D currency would enable remote and even cross-border transactions.
It has accused Visa of preventing customers from using a currency of their choice in transactions.
The only fee is the .0005 BTC that Foodler pays to the computational miners passing the currency around to helps its transactions be processed faster.
Acquirers are paying more, but they are doing so painlessly, since their own shares, which serve as their currency in stock-swap transactions, are as inflated as those of their prey.
This national currency would be used for domestic transactions, pension benefits, and the salaries of public sector employees.
Hand out a hundred-dollar bill to each Brazilian, and let them use this alternative for transactions that are too important for the homemade currency.
Because it is seen as the reserve currency, prices for commodities and international transactions are denominated in dollars.
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That free ride is over now: Banks have extended currency exchange fees and usage fees to transactions made in foreign countries.
New rules allowing foreign enterprises to more freely change yuan into their own currency are likely to affect only large transactions.
The most radical solution of all is a new global currency that could be used in international transactions and would float alongside domestic currencies.
None of them could possibly gauge the gains that the currency might bring through the simplification of transactions against the future losses Denmark might suffer from losing control of its monetary policy.
Money was never intended to act as a form of identity tracking or payments restriction and this is why the option for anonymous and untraceable transactions is so vital as society moves to a world of digital currency.
Currency unions promise members a more prosperous world, in which transactions, trade and investment across national borders all become much easier.
Desperate for hard currency, the government imposed curbs on imports and foreign-exchange transactions.
Operating out of storefronts or temporary locations like trailers, they provide currency exchange and money transmissions, and act as brokers for financial transactions.
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