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Some reluctant pearls of wisdom here: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/sep/21/citylights1-transaction-tax/ If this headline, "EU Transaction Tax May Affect Non-EU Banks, Handelsblatt Says", indicates in any way that their EU proposal due out in two weeks could interfere with, or...

Here's the Schauble letter, with 4-page attachment http://www.economie.gouv.fr/files/lettre-franco-allemande.pdf Anders Borg also contributed words of caution: "We have substantial experience in Sweden. Basically most of our derivative and bond trading went to London during the...

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/09/09/financial-tax-idUKL5E7K91LZ20110909?feedType=RSS&feedName=rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews

http://news.businessweek.com/article.asp?documentKey=1376-LR9CQQ1A74E901-46EQSF5A96SAROJ2PG0VGC17AI The detailed PDF Franco-German letter to Barnier is indicated on the (translated) French Finance Minister's website but efforts to retrieve it failed.

If Semeta was correctly quoted, his egomanic decree that "someone has to take global leadership" could be interpreted as the height of international bullying. Before year's end I hope some of these diplomatic G20 captains have enough guts to make it clear to the arrogant Semeta and his tribe...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/08/us-eu-tax-trading-idUSTRE7874CD20110908 "Semeta said his officials were working on a scheme of taxation that would avoid discouraging trading. A German bank doing a deal in London with a Spanish bank, for example, would generate tax bills not in...

Up until Cannes, they will force-feed a 2010 repeat performance onto the same majority G20 refusers. Sufficient refusals will be apparent before Cannes, but even that won't stop them embarrassing themselves. http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCATRE77R10B20110828

This peculiar pair Merkel & Sarkozy along with some ill-advised supporters unwisely painted themselves into an impossibly tight political corner. Hasty megaphone diplomacy isn't culturally welcome outside Europe. Extricating themselves would be political wizardry a category they clearly don't...

Serious warnings begin to emerge from big financial sector businesses planning relocation:- Google Icap's threat to quit UK over EU tax :)

http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2011-08-18/ten-hurdles-facing-the-financial-transaction-tax?mod=sectionheadlines-home-IB

My perfectly appropriate alternative post was also ignored.

http://docs.edhec-risk.com/mrk/000000/Press/Commissioner_Barnier_Tobin%20Tax_110712.pdf

YES, thank you. An "unalterable" website/guide containing accurate, readily absorbed FTT information, facts and potentially damaging outcomes which can be easily delivered via link or quote to under-informed political advisers, media writers etc. Also "the tax WILL" context sounds like...

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/252272/George-Osborne-to-fight-Robin-Hood-tax :)

http://www.cityam.com/news-and-analysis/fury-eurocrats-vote-tobin-tax http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/politics&id=8181170

The big Asian economies don't trust the IMF. It's totally irrelevant to them. Less vibrant economies ignore the rapidly booming IMF memberships at their peril. As "manager" of an international organisation Lagarde would have to accept that influential FTT refusers meant it when they said NO...

In current circumstances, common sense should dictate that to restore IMF credibility, a 100% clean-skin should be selected. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/11/christine-lagarde-invetigation-bernard-tapie Already one contender pulled out of the IMF race, the implied reason a minor...

Interesting compromises from this notorious individual: http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/2011/may/19/no-free-ride-finance/ :)

Excellent short-listed candidate for IMF's new Managing Director is Canada's Mark Carney.