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Author Michalos, Alex C.

Title Good taxes : the case for taxing foreign currency exchange and other financial transactions / Alex C. Michalos.

Publication Info. Toronto [Ont.] : Dundurn Press, [1997]
©1997
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 87 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Science for Peace. Dundurn series
Dundurn series.
Note Co-published by Science for Peace.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-84).
Contents The politics of debt, taxes and services -- Bretton Woods and foreign currency exchange activity -- The idea of a tobin tax -- Arguments in favour of taxing financial transactions -- Arguments against taxing financial transactions -- Conclusion.
Summary Financial transactions taxes are in force in all the major developed countries except the USA and Canada. Typically the tax is 0.25% or less, paid whenever stocks and shares or bonds, etc. change hands. The tax originally proposed by Tobin would be a new tax applicable to all international transactions in which currency is exhanged. A similar tax in North America could bring in billions of dollars, even if the tax were as low as 0.1%. In Good Taxes, Alex Michalos puts forth the argument in favour of a financial transactions tax. He looks at the tax as being a benefit to the countries that colle.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Foreign exchange futures -- Taxation -- Canada.
Foreign exchange futures -- Taxation.
Canada.
Foreign exchange futures.
Foreign exchange futures -- Taxation -- United States.
United States.
Securities -- Taxation -- Canada.
Securities -- Taxation.
Securities -- Taxation -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Science for Peace (Association)
Other Form: Print version: Michalos, Alex C. Good taxes. Toronto, Ont. ; Oxford : Dundurn Press : Science for Peace, ©1997 0888669542 9780888669544 (OCoLC)36693080
ISBN 9781554881789 (electronic book)
1554881781 (electronic book)
9781554886036 (e-book)
1554886031 (e-book)
0888669542
9780888669544

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