Spain Plans to Back Tax on Financial Transactions, Pais Reports
2014-02-18 09:43:51.989 GMT
By Manuel Baigorri
Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Spanish govt plans to support a tax
on financial transactions at today’s finance ministers’ meeting
with certain limitations, El Pais reports, citing people it
didn’t identify.
* Spain wants tax on financial transactions to only apply to
purchase of shares in biggest publicly traded companies, the
newspaper says
* Spain to oppose extending tax to other financial
transactions such as derivatives as it could affect to the
country’s debt position, El Pais says
* Link to story in Spanish: http://tinyurl.com/o7tq35e
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2014-02-18 09:43:51.989 GMT
By Manuel Baigorri
Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Spanish govt plans to support a tax
on financial transactions at today’s finance ministers’ meeting
with certain limitations, El Pais reports, citing people it
didn’t identify.
* Spain wants tax on financial transactions to only apply to
purchase of shares in biggest publicly traded companies, the
newspaper says
* Spain to oppose extending tax to other financial
transactions such as derivatives as it could affect to the
country’s debt position, El Pais says
* Link to story in Spanish: http://tinyurl.com/o7tq35e
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Manuel Baigorri in Madrid at +34-91-7009647 or
mbaigorri@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Aaron Kirchfeld at +44-20-3525-8830 or
akirchfeld@bloomberg.net