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Financial Transaction Tax limps along

A briefing to the ECOFIN meeting in Brussels last month suggests that progress on the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) is painfully slow.

According to the ECOFIN Press Release, key issues such as the basis of assessment (residence or issuance) and collection mechanisms remain unresolved. While the application of FTT to shares seems to have been scoped, the taxation of transactions in derivatives remains “a key open question”.

Only 11 EU Member States are involved in the proposal – Austria, Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.