A financial transactions tax is exactly what it sounds like — a tax levied on each transaction an investor makes in the financial markets. The U.S. does not have a significant financial transaction ...

Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., have introduced legislation in the Senate and the House to block foreign governments from collecting taxes on securities transactions. Processing ...

Billions of dollars to pay for government infrastructure and jobs programs would be taken out of stocks, bonds, and derivatives trades under a bill introduced by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) and six ...

The debt ceiling crisis has again brought into focus the perennial gap between what the government spends and what it accumulates in taxes, and the virtual impossibility of closing that gap by ...

As discussions about the federal budget abound, political pundits are wrongly seeking out new taxes. One misguided proposal is a U.S. financial transaction tax, which would likely apply to trading ...

One of the advice industry's top challenges is to fend off state attempts to tax financial transactions even as more lawmakers in Washington are warming to the idea. Chet Helck, CEO of the Global ...

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A bill that would impose a tax on high-volume financial transactions in New Jersey will be the subject of a hearing in the state Assembly next week. The meeting Monday of the Financial Institutions ...

Fueled by lingering post-financial-crisis resentments, populism is upending conventional political assumptions. How far-fetched it seemed even a year ago that the British public would vote to exit the ...