Good taxes the case for taxing foreign currency exchange and other financial transactions
Financial transactions taxes are in force in all the major developed countries except the USA and Canada. Typically the tax is 0.25% or less, paid whenever stocks and shares or bonds, etc. change hands. The tax originally proposed by Tobin would be a new tax applicable to all international transacti...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
Dundurn Press
c1997.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Science for Peace. Dundurn series. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31549469*spi |
| Sumario: | Financial transactions taxes are in force in all the major developed countries except the USA and Canada. Typically the tax is 0.25% or less, paid whenever stocks and shares or bonds, etc. change hands. The tax originally proposed by Tobin would be a new tax applicable to all international transactions in which currency is exhanged. A similar tax in North America could bring in billions of dollars, even if the tax were as low as 0.1%. In Good Taxes, Alex Michalos puts forth the argument in favour of a financial transactions tax. He looks at the tax as being a benefit to the countries that colle. |
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| Notas: | Co-published by Science for Peace. |
| Descripción Física: | viii, 87 p. |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 79-84). |
| ISBN: | 9781554881789 9781554886036 |
