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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
Dundurn Press,
©1997.
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| Colección: | Dundurn series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| 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: | 1 online resource (viii, 87 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-84). |
| ISBN: | 9781554881789 1554881781 9781554886036 1554886031 9781459720695 1459720695 |