Showing posts with label financial transaction tax. Show all posts
Showing posts with label financial transaction tax. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 01, 2014

Handelsblatt: Britain a key driver of EU Reform

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Britain: The critical voice of reason? We've been monitoring how the British Europe debate is being received across the continent th...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Swedish and Dutch patience running out over proposed FTT?

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EU finance ministers met today , with the financial transaction tax (FTT) once again topping the agenda . They were presented with a new...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

ECJ throws out UK's FTT challenge, raising questions about whether it can be trusted to police the EU treaties

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This morning’s ECJ judgement that the UK’s legal challenge against a proposed Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) is premature was what many h...
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Thursday, April 24, 2014

Judgement day for the EU FTT: Will the ECJ rule in favour of taxation without representation?

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There has been an important development brewing in the UK’s flagship case against the EU's proposed Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) . ...
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Friday, December 06, 2013

The EU’s zombie tax

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Back in September, we wrote on this blog that the EU’s Financial Transaction Tax was “dying a death of a thousand cuts”. However, follo...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

The FTT is dying a death of a thousand cuts – this could be the final one

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The EU’s Financial Transaction Tax has taken another big blow today – possibly a fatal one. A leaked legal opinion by the European Counci...
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Friday, May 24, 2013

When ideology meets economic reality (part III): Germany squabbles over the Financial Transaction Tax

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The Bundesbank , The Deutscher Aktieninstitute (DAI) , and even EU civil servants from the 11 participating countries have all warned again...
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Thursday, May 23, 2013

"If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher" - The Commission utterly fails to address flaws in the financial transaction tax

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There's an old Latin saying, "If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher." Reading the Commission's de...
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Thursday, May 09, 2013

When ideology meets economic reality (Part III): Opposition to the FTT grows at the heart of Europe

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As we noted recently with the exclusive release of  internal documents on the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), even amongst those who are...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

When ideology meets economic reality (Part II): Bundesbank says EU financial transaction tax could make banks more reliant on cheap ECB money

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As was made evident by the internal memo about the EU financial transaction tax (FTT) - that we exclusively published yesterday - there a...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

EXCLUSIVE: Internal documents reveal countries' concerns with FTT proposal (or when ideology meets economic reality)

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The European Commission, of course, doesn't get what the fuss is about, but some countries that are meant to participate in the much-cri...
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Friday, April 19, 2013

Game on - UK Government launches legal challenge against controversial EU Financial Transaction Tax

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It has just been announced that at midnight last night the UK government submitted a challenge against the financial transaction tax to the ...
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Monday, March 11, 2013

Some more signs of financial market fragmentation in the eurozone?

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The European Repo Council of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) released its bi-annual assessment of the European repo mar...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

The FTT debate rumbles on...

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The FT reported today on the latest draft proposals for the EU financial transactions tax (FTT), which is proceeding under enhanced coopera...
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Friday, March 23, 2012

Taxing unicorns

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The European Commission continues to spend a huge amount of taxpayers’ time and money pushing around its proposal for an EU financial transa...
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Shooting yourself in the foot

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At risk of sleep walking into a proposal for an EU financial transaction tax , the UK Treasury is now receiving some well-needed, and wholly...
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