Sdp tivaa hallitukselta Robin Hood -veroa

Minusta vihreiden pitäisi nyt tarttua näihin mahdollisuuksiin haastaa porvarihegemonia. Muuttunut SDP sopisi yhteistyökumppaniksi sekä globalisaatiopolitiikan että ympäristö- ja työelämäagendojen kohdalla vallan mainiosti. Rohkeutta vihreät!

SDP lienee tutustunut tuohon Englannin malliin, ei taida ihan kaikkea pörssikaupankäyntiä koskea tuo paikallinen leimavero...

Ruotsissa on tätä SDPn ehdottamaa jo kokeiltukin.

n January, 1984, Sweden introduced a 0.5% tax on the purchase or sale of an equity security. Hence a round trip (purchase and sale) transaction resulted in a 1% tax. In July, 1986, the rate was doubled, and in January, 1989, a considerably lower tax of 0.002% on fixed-income securities was introduced for a security with a maturity of 90 days or less. On a bond with a maturity of five years or more, the tax was 0.003%. Analyst Marion G. Wrobel prepared a paper for Canadian Government in July, 2006, examining the international experience with financial transaction taxes, and paying particular attention to the Swedish experience. [10]

The revenues from taxes were disappointing; for example, revenues from the tax on fixed-income securities were initially expected to amount to 1,500 million Swedish kroner per year. They did not amount to more than 80 million Swedish kroner in any year and the average was closer to 50 million.[11] In addition, as taxable trading volumes fell, so did revenues from capital gains taxes, entirely offsetting revenues from the equity transactions tax that had grown to 4,000 million Swedish kroner by 1988. [12]

On the day that the tax was announced, share prices fell by 2.2%. But there was leakage of information prior to the announcement, which might explain the 5.35% price decline in the 30 days prior to the announcement. When the tax was doubled, prices again fell by another 1%. These declines were in line with the capitalized value of future tax payments resulting from expected trades. It was further felt that the taxes on fixed-income securities only served to increase the cost of government borrowing, providing another argument against the tax.

Even though the tax on fixed-income securities was much lower than that on equities, the impact on market trading was much more dramatic. During the first week of the tax, the volume of bond trading fell by 85%, even though the tax rate on five-year bonds was only 0.003%. The volume of futures trading fell by 98% and the options trading market disappeared. On 15 April 1990, the tax on fixed-income securities was abolished. In January 1991 the rates on the remaining taxes were cut in half and by the end of the year they were abolished completely. Once the taxes were eliminated, trading volumes returned and grew substantially in the 1990s.

Englantia on vähän huono käyttää perusteluna, että verolla ei olisi vaikutuksia kun tuota veroa ei käytännössä maksa juuri mikään taho.