The FTT: Killing two taboos with one stone

March 01 2013

Algirdas Šemeta, European Commissioner for Taxation, Customs, Statistics, Audit and Anti-fraud, explains that the proposal for a financial transaction tax (FTT) under enhanced cooperation that the Commission tabled last month is a milestone from at least two perspectives: the tax itself and the procedure used for the tax to become a reality.

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