How Financial Transaction Taxes Make the Economy More Efficient

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/05/how-financial-transaction-taxes-make-the-economy-more-efficient/
Date Written:  2017-04-05
Publisher:  CounterPunch
Year Published:  2017
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX20635

The efforts to implement a financial transactions tax (FTT) within the European Union (EU) seem to be finally coming to a head. While the EU is far from unanimous in support of a FTT, an effort to implement a joint FTT has been moving forward for the last six years under a provision that allows ten or more countries to act collectively.

Subject Headings

• Economic Research & Analysis
• Economic Restructuring
• European Union
• Financial Transactions Tax
• Pension Fund Investments
• Pension Funds Industry