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As you probably already know, Finance Minister Scholz is planning a share tax under the striking title: “Financial Transaction Tax”.

That this only meets the small stock saver and not the speculator is often swept under the table, but I already described it here in the blog a few months ago. This reduced tax is now expected to bring in between EUR 1.2 and 3.9 billion per year instead of the originally planned eur 34 billion.

How does this difference of a factor of 10 actually come about? I wondered how much the revenue of a “real” financial transaction tax could be if it were not only passed on to private equity savers, but also other securities and speculators.

The results speak for themselves.
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