The question is : is it a tax for institutional, banks ,etc. , or a tax for retail traders. I think in the initial project retail traders are not affected. We need to pay attention to that.
There's no ambiguity about what I wrote : everything will be in the project that will be presented in early October by European commission. And Reuters obtained that document: Mains informations are: no tax on forex and no tax for retail traders (it was the project originally presented by EC)...
Again, I remind that Reuters say the tax WOULD NOT APPLY TO RETAIL INVESTORS like you and me, according to the project soon presented by European commission: you trade shares, you are exempted, you trade derivatives, you are exempted ...
I read a news in french from Reuters about the tax soon proposed by European commission.
-We learn that the tax would not concern European retail traders (only institutions and banks who trade on european and foreign markets)
-The tax would concern shares, bonds (0.1%) and derivatives...
For years now, they have been talking about a tax, but politicians are imprecise about the terms: as a forex trader, I'm wondering which types of transactions would be aimed at? Will Forex be affected ? And how ? There's no centralized place for currency exchange transactions: if I' m trading...