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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10048

5 January 2010
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/taxation/customs
Algirdas Šemeta is ready to look into feasibility of internationally coordinated tax on financial transactions

Brussels, 04/01/2010 (Agence Europe) - Algirdas Šemeta, Commissioner for Taxation, Customs Union and Audit, states he is ready to “explore the feasibility of an internationally coordinated tax on financial transactions and other possible sources of innovative financing” in his response to the questionnaire forwarded to him by the European Parliament committee on economic and monetary affairs.

Mr Šemeta, the former Lithuanian finance minister, sets himself two priorities for his...

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