{"id":19016,"date":"2013-01-23T06:06:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T06:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=19016"},"modified":"2013-01-23T06:06:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T06:06:57","slug":"the-financial-transaction-tax-is-on-its-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/01\/23\/the-financial-transaction-tax-is-on-its-way\/","title":{"rendered":"The financial transaction tax is on its way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fantastic\u00a0news from Europe, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-21138494\" target=\"_blank\">via the BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\">EU ministers have given the go ahead for 11 eurozone members, including France and Germany, to prepare a new financial transactions tax.<\/p>\n<p>The approval under \"enhanced co-operation\" rules allows the smaller group to pioneer the tax.<\/p>\n<p>Governments previously failed to agree to impose the tax across the entire 27-member EU or 17-member eurozone.<\/p>\n<p>The UK and 15 other EU members will not introduce the tax, which is intended to discourage speculative trading.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Particular\u00a0congratulations\u00a0to David Hillman at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stampoutpoverty.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stamp Out Poverty<\/a>: he has worked\u00a0tirelessly\u00a0for more than a decade on this issue.<\/p>\n<p>Now it's on to the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantastic\u00a0news from Europe, via the BBC: EU ministers have given the go ahead for 11 eurozone members, including France and Germany, to prepare a new<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/01\/23\/the-financial-transaction-tax-is-on-its-way\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transaction-tax","category-transaction-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}