G20 disagreements on tax credit
Priority of Berlin and Paris, the tax credit has received a cold reception in Toronto at the G20. Despite support from Washington and London, the communiqué does not mention the tax lip as a legitimate option for banks to charge up the pieces of the crisis. But the G20 is careful to praise, to the chagrin of the French and Germans who are promoting at European level.
'There is no international agreement on the tax, "says the Canadian government, hostile to this project from the start. Canadians, Australians and emerging countries are opposed to this levy, because their banks have managed to ride out the storm without state aid. "The financial sector should contribute to the budgetary effort of governments intervened to fix the financial system or money abound resolution," admits the G20."Some countries are considering a tax credit, others are promoting other approaches," said the statement, which takes note of the divisions at the highest level.
Budget 2011 in France
Some guiding principles of tax are set out in the annexes of the findings, but the virtues "antirisques" of the tax are not highlighted. Most delegations, particularly Americans, found it more effective to expand the capital of the most exposed to risks to avert a future crisis. One option feared by European banks, less well capitalized than their competitors in North America.
Angela Merkel, who was the first in Europe to defend the tax credit on a European scale, is not surprised by the meager results of the G20. "We were not going to convince the world to Toronto to impose a tax on banks, this was not the goal!" Will be defended German side."The G20 recognized the legitimacy of the tax, it is well", says it does on the French side. "Whatever the decision of our partners, we will implement this tax!" Warned Sarkozy Nicolas who entered the menu of the budget 2011.
France is Germany and Great Britain seem determined to pay their banks but, despite the political display, the proportions remain reasonable so as not too lose competitiveness relative to Asian markets. Thanks to its tax, France has recovered 1 billion; Great Britain, 3 billion pounds, the U.S. counting on $ 19 billion.A lesser evil for Western banks, which always escape to the great reform of global financial regulation announced by the governments since the first G20 in Washington.
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