1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

Discussion in 'Taxes and Accounting' started by seasideheights, Jan 13, 2009.

  1. Quartz

    Quartz

  2. Cesko

    Cesko

    .........So, who really gets hurt by this proposal? In the end it’s the individual investor.”

    No need to be smart to figure it out.
     
    #822     Mar 5, 2009
  3. I don't know a single democrat who is different then him. They are all deluded little Nazi's.
     
    #823     Mar 5, 2009
  4. #824     Mar 5, 2009
  5. Maybe we shall move to trade in China. No capital gain tax there as far as I know. transaction tax is 0.1%, only charged when you buy. its said they are going to lower tax rate further.
     
    #825     Mar 5, 2009
  6. .1% is too much by a factor of 100
     
    #826     Mar 5, 2009
  7. zdreg

    zdreg


    there have been posts that have shown the cost of .1% would bankrupt a leveraged trader within 6 months to a year if he just breaks even from the market including commissions.

    yet these ridiculous posts with ridiculous solutions are still put up.
     
    #827     Mar 5, 2009
  8. sogodo

    sogodo

    I think DeFazio is rather a bad guy not because he is working for Al Capone, but because, his personal lobbist could be probably Al Qaeda (since 2000). It can explains everything. Otherwise I would assume that the honorable member of Congress is not comfortable with the very basics of trivial arithmetics and devastating cumulative effect of "tiny" %%.

     
    #828     Mar 5, 2009
  9. Duh.
    London already has a transaction tax.

    Frankfurt abolished their transaction tax in 1991, but the Social Democrat Party is currently proposing bringing it back. The SPD trails the CDU by about 10 percentage points in the polls.

    http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?ei...ax+taxes+london&d=S6NCCZ2uSX39&icp=1&.intl=us

    NYC Independent Budget Office
    Effects of Reviving NY Stock Transfer Tax
    "Revenues and Risks"

    Nov. 2003
     
    #829     Mar 5, 2009
  10. Jake88

    Jake88