Speech: Financial Transaction Tax: Time to engage, compromise and deliver

Text of a speech by Algirdas Šemeta, Commissioner responsible for Taxation and Customs Union, Statistics, Audit and Anti-fraud at the plenary debate about the financial transaction tax (FTT), also known as the Tobin Tax, in the European Parliament, Strasbourg, 4 February 2014.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: EU institutions at war on 'illegal' finance tax http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-institutions-at-war-on-illegal-finance-tax/

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