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Financial transactions tax gets go ahead

January 22, 2013 by Suzan A. Kane Leave a Comment

The European Sting on Saturday 19 January wrote that, the “The ECOFIN Council is expected on Tuesday 22 January to adopt the Commission’s proposal to authorise enhanced cooperation on the Financial Transactions Tax”. Indeed today 22 January 2013, the Ecofin Council adopted a decision authorising eleven member states to go ahead with enhanced cooperation on […]

Filed Under: Economy, Eurozone Tagged With: Financial Transactions Tax, FTT, José Manuel Barroso, Martin Schulz

Capital transaction tax on Ecofin table

January 19, 2013 by Suzan A. Kane Leave a Comment

Next Tuesday 22 January, the Economic and Finance Ministers Council (ECOFIN) is expected to meet in Brussels. As a main item in its agenda has being tabled the Financial Transactions Tax (FTT). So far only 11 EU member states out of the 27 have agreed to go through with it. The 11 participating EU countries are […]

Filed Under: Policy Tagged With: ECOFIN, European Parliament, financial industry, Financial Transactions Tax, VAT