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The issue of extraterritoriality is pivotal, and it poses a difficult dilemma for the architects of the FTT-11. Include extraterritoriality and face an onslaught of legal challenges throughout the world which they may not win (and the FTT collapses). Or leave out extraterritoriality and the...

http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2013-04-15/financial-transaction-tax-too-blunt-elizabeth-corley-comment

Financial Transactions Tax Would Cost French Companies EUR70 Billion - Report http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2013/04/15/financial-transactions-tax-would-cost-french-companies-eur70-billion-report/

(Reuters) - Bankers are confident they can persuade the European Union that its proposed financial trading tax poses enough risks to struggling economies and banks to warrant being watered down.[...] http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/04/14/uk-europe-banks-tax-idUKBRE93D02C20130414

WASHINGTON (MNI) - Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, testifying Thursday morning to the U.S. House Ways & Means Committee, was asked by Rep. Richard Neal, a Massachusetts Democrat, the U.S. position on the financial transaction tax being supported by 11 EU member countries and approved by the...

[...]The SPD complains that the Merkel administration has put the EU financial transaction tax (FTT) on the political back-burner. The Merkel administration agreed to push the FTT in exchange for continued opposition backing of rescue measures in Bundestag votes. With an eye on the September...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/9985673/Tobin-Tax-is-suicide-for-Europe-and-economic-war-against-Britain.html

http://wallstreetonparade.com/2013/04/treasury-secretary-jack-lew-pushes-the-anti-social-security-pro-wall-street-agenda/

Opposition flares to proposed FTT as deadline edges closer http://www.investmenteurope.net/investment-europe/feature/2258239/opposition-flares-to-proposed-ftt-as-deadline-edges-closer Another strong article slamming the EU FTT.

http://www.4-traders.com/ICAP-PLC-9590201/news/ICAP-plc-ICAP-warns-on-potential-impact-of-financial-transactions-tax-16609009/ More from ICAP plus: Bank of America Merrill Lynch [2] has estimated the FTT will result in an increased annual interest cost of €6.5bn - €8.5bn for Germany...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9976218/EU-finance-tax-will-devastate-the-City-and-damage-economies-reports-warn.html

Czech PM: Finance transaction tax will harm EU economy Prague, April 3 (CTK) - The planned financial transaction tax, which the European Commission wants to introduced in some member states of the European Union (EU), will harm the EU economy and will make it less competitive in the area of...

http://www.iii.co.uk/news-opinion/reuters/news/84269 LONDON (Reuters) - A planned EU tax on securities transactions will add billions of pounds to the cost of issuing debt in Britain, hitting companies and government finances even though the country will not impose the levy, a study said on...

British MPs urge legal challenge over transaction tax http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/03/27/uk-britain-eu-tax-idUKBRE92Q0M220130327

Excellent news! Here's the full article for those who can't easily access through the link: Cracks appear in early FTT talks Michelle Price and Richard Partington 25 Mar 2013 Tensions are building among the 11 European Union member states signed up to introduce a sweeping new tax on...

This doesn't sound good http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2013-03-20a.155.3

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/19/eu-britain-transactiontax-idUSL6N0CBENC20130319

http://www.opalesque.com/645793/Dutch_participants_think_the_financial_transaction_tax_is579.html I liked this bit- "Unfortunately, most people, including probably the majority of the politicians, are so far away from the realities of the financial industry, they really have no clue,"...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e593af72-8bf9-11e2-8fcf-00144feabdc0.html Trading in Italian stocks through the desks of major banks has dropped sharply amid a wider fall in volumes since Italy introduced a tax on financial transactions.

http://www.top1000funds.com/analysis/2013/03/08/pension-funds-reject-eu-financial-transaction-tax/ [...] If the FTT’s introduction is delayed, Šemeta faces another problem. The Commission’s term, including his own, expires in October 2014. Given the snail-like pace of EU processes...