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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7875
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/taxation

For and against the international "Tobin tax", according to an EP working document

Brussels, 05/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - In a working document of the Economic Affairs Series of the European Parliament's Studies Directorate General, entitled "The feasibility of an international "Tobin tax", Ben Patterson and Mickal Galliano consider that whatever the preferences between the arguments for or against this tax, first proposed in 1972 by Professor James Tobin to "throw some grains of sand into the wheels of speculation", it probably is but a question of a "solution of second...

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