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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10831

20 April 2013
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) taxation
Italy prepared for tough fight over FTT

Brussels, 19/04/2013 (Agence Europe) - Italy is prepared for tough clashes and use of its veto if necessary to prevent introduction of the financial transactions tax (FTT) by eleven member states if it does not win agreement that trade in sovereign bonds be exempt from the new tax (see EUROPE 10825). Italy's permanent representative to the EU, Ferdinando Nelli Feroci, said on Friday 19 April that this was something Italy would not give up. Germany wants sovereign bond sales to be subject to...

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