{"id":6909,"date":"2010-05-20T22:06:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T20:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=6909"},"modified":"2010-05-20T22:06:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T20:06:34","slug":"merkel-says-yes-to-tobin-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/05\/20\/merkel-says-yes-to-tobin-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkel says yes to Tobin tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accountancyage.com\/accountancyage\/news\/2263426\/merkel-lines-transaction-tax\">Merkel lines up transaction tax  - Accountancy Age<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sentiment for a levy on financial institutions was stronger today after German finance minister Angela Merkel called for an international finance tax.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Merkel, speaking prior to a meeting of EU finance ministers tomorrow, said that a financial tax and stronger regulation would show the world that Europe had got a grip of the finance industry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very good news.<\/p>\n<p>And the right response to the current situation where excessive liquidity is causing serious harm.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on f<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Documents\/IMFTaxingBanks.pdf\">inancial transaction taxes here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merkel lines up transaction tax &#8211; Accountancy Age. Sentiment for a levy on financial institutions was stronger today after German finance minister Angela Merkel called<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/05\/20\/merkel-says-yes-to-tobin-tax\/\"><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":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transaction-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909","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=6909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}