EU to Propose Broad, Low-Rate Financial-Transactions Tax
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The European Commission said it plans to propose soon a financial-transaction tax that targets a broad range of trades with low rates.
“The commission should make a proposal in the coming weeks,” David Boublil, a spokesman for the commission, told reporters today in Brussels. “It should be a tax with a very wide scope to cover a number of financial instruments but also with a low rate.”