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Financial transactions tax : panacea, threat, or damp squib ?

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  • Honohan, Patrick
  • Yoder, Sean

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Attempts to raise a significant percentage of gross domestic product in revenue from a broad-based financial transactions tax are likely to fail both by raising much less revenue than expected and by generating far-reaching changes in economic behavior. Although the side-effects would include a sizable restructuring of financial sector activity, this would not occur in ways corrective of the particular forms of financial overtrading that were most conspicuous in contributing to the crisis.

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  • Honohan, Patrick & Yoder, Sean, 2010. "Financial transactions tax : panacea, threat, or damp squib ?," Policy Research Working Paper Series 5230, The World Bank.
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    1. Rafael Aigner & Felix Bierbrauer, 2015. "Boring Banks and Taxes," Discussion Paper Series of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods 2015_07, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods.
    2. Danuse Nerudova, 2011. "Taxing the financial sector in the European Union," MENDELU Working Papers in Business and Economics 2011-16, Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Business and Economics.
    3. European Commission, 2010. "Innovative Financing at a Global Level," Taxation Papers 23, Directorate General Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission.
    4. European Commission, 2010. "Financial Sector Taxation," Taxation Papers 25, Directorate General Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission.

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    Debt Markets; Emerging Markets; Taxation&Subsidies; Banks&Banking Reform; Economic Theory&Research;
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