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Financial-Transaction Tax: Small Is Beautiful

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  • Zsolt Darvas
  • Jakob von Weizsäcker

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Based on their contribution to the European Parliament Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, in this Policy Contribution Resident Fellows Zsolt Darvas and Jakob von Weizsäcker discuss the merits of the much-discussed financial-transaction tax. They argue that the case for taxing financial transactions for the sake of not raising revenue is relatively weak, but a financial-transaction tax could be useful in limiting socially-undesirable transactions. On this basis, they say, a very small, coordinated tax on financial transactions could be implemented successfully. A revised version of this paper was also published in Society and Economy Volume 33, Number 3/December 2011

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Paper provided by Bruegel in its series Policy Contributions with number 379.

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  1. Copenhagen Economics, 2011. "Elasticities of Financial Instruments, Profits and Remuneration," Taxation Papers 30, Directorate General Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission.

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