Support for Financial Transaction Tax Keeps Within Limits

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

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

Support for Financial Transaction Tax Keeps Within Limits / Picture: © Vindobona.org

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…