“The proposal – now in the hands of working groups – is to come into force in early 2014. It will raise a fee of 0.1pc for shares and bonds, and 0.01pc for derivatives.  These rates are far higher than the Swedish tax in 1989 that led to an 85pc crash in bond sales, a 98pc fall in bond futures, and shut-down of options trading, before the experiment was abandoned.  The Chancellor, George Osborne, said the FTT scheme would amount to a tax on pensioners and cost up to 1m jobs across the EU ‘without costing bankers a penny’. The traders would migrate to the US or Asia, taking the financial industry with them.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9913227/French-and-Italian-debt-chiefs-warn-on-EU-Tobin-Tax.html

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