Algirdas Šemeta EU Commissioner for Taxation, Customs, Anti-Fraud and Audit Towards a financial transaction tax in Europe and the world Press conference on common rules for a financial transaction tax, 28 September 2011 Strasbourg, 28 September 2011

SPEECH/11/611 Ladies and Gentlemen, Today, the Commission proposed to set up a financial transaction tax in the Single market. Many are awaiting this tax, for a long time now. 65% of European Citizens are in favour of this tax….