Financial Transactions Tax : Panacea, Threat, or Damp Squib?

The authors argue that attempts to raise a significant percentage of gross domestic product in revenue from a broad-based financial transactions tax are likely to fail both by raising much less revenue than expected and by generating far-reaching changes in economic behavior. They point out that, al...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Honohan, Patrick, Yoder, Sean
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank 2013
Subjects:
tax
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13503