French Lawmakers Pass Trading Transaction Tax France’s parliament passed President Francois Hollande’s revised 2012 budget, including a 0.2 percent transaction tax on share purchases that takes effect today.
What is the Financial Transaction Tax? A tax that takes a percentage of every bank transaction, here the French have connected it to shares. It's an attractive idea because the bank records makes it very difficult for corporates to hide their cash from tax.
One of the problems we face in NZ is that the Government have starved off revenue to the state to force the amputation of public services while using the debt bogeyman to stop borrowing. A financial transaction tax raises revenue from sources who are adept at hiding their tax responsibilities. It's a tax that falls hardest on the 1% for the benefit of the 99%, MANA were the only party at the last election calling for this in the form of the Hone Heke Tax and we should watch the French example for ideas in 2014.
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Vive la France, and why not tax the money which is made from charging interest, extortion which is the definition of usury, a fact that the Hon Mr Harawira has recognised well ahead of his peers and had the courage to say so.
ReplyDeleteI can see the French banks retreating across The Channel faster than they did at Dunkirk! For the tax to be effective it has to be enforced across the EU or even globally.
ReplyDeleteI can see the French banks retreating across The Channel faster than they did at Dunkirk! For the tax to be effective it has to be enforced across the EU or even globally.
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