Fast fünf Jahre nach der umfassenden Reformierung des Umwandlungssteuergesetzes durch das Gesetz über steuerliche Begleitmaßnahmen zur Einführung der Europäischen Gesellschaft und zur Änderung weiterer steuerlicher Vorschriften (SEStEG) vom 07.12.2006 veröffentlichte die Finanzverwaltung...

The financial markets have changed quite fundamentally in the last a few decades, yet the measures we use to regulate them have not really changed at all. The market patterns of high frequency trading, computer generated activity and short-termism are now well entrenched, and will be difficult...

The European Commission has included a Eurozone financial transaction tax in its longterm budget, as a first step towards a global tax. This move was taken despite negative European Commission and International Monetary Fund staff reports, which concluded that a tax would reduce the efficiency...