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Support for Financial Transaction Tax Keeps Within Limits

Published: October 6, 2012; 18:20 · (Vindobona)

In order to introduce the tax, nine countries must agree thereon. The time pressure is growing.

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Austria´s Minister of Finance Maria Fekter underlines that Austria is ready to introduce a financial transaction tax. Last week, her French counterpart Pierre Moscovici and her German counterpart Wolfgang Schäuble called for the introduction of a financial transaction tax too.

“The financial transaction tax would be an important contribution of the financial sector to manage…

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