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Month: March 2010

Euractiv: EU Parliament pushes for bank tax

Published: 11 March 2010 An overwhelming majority of MEPs yesterday (10 March) pushed the EU executive to weigh up the costs and benefits of a possible tax on financial trading to compensate taxpayers for bank bailouts and plug public deficits. Background A tax on cross-border currency trading has been considered on many occasions by politicians […]

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