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The government of Barack Obama is planning to put a 10 years tax on nearly 50 big financial entities. This doesn’t mean that the government will win money with it, because the program of toxic assets purchases generated money to the public treasury.

These taxes will be of about $90.000, will cover loses from the car and insurance industries, and the aid plan to the real state market. It is true that banks got benefit from the actuations of the government to handle the financial crisis, and some must pay for it. It’s probable that Although Obama said no way, the customers of the banks will end being the payers.

The ”responsibility tax” will generate a big debate and will possibly be modified before being promulgated. But under its current form, that affects the capitals except the Tier1 and domestic deposits, the fiscal structure is unfavorable for brokers, due to its big dependence to wholesaler financing and entities like Citygroup, that have a wide basis of non assured deposits abroad.

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The German Finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, is studying the possibility of postpone to 2011 the fiscal reform accorded by the government, that regards a reduction of taxes by value of €24000 million yearly.

According the newspaper ‘Der Spiegel’, the department estimates that, given the level of German National Debt, the beginning of tax reductions should be postponed by a year or two.

In his coalition agreement, christian-democraths (CDU), liberals)FDP) and bavarian socialchristians (CSU) accorded in October a wide fiscal reformation aimed to reduce the tax charge by €24000 million yearly, beginning from 2011. Those plans have been considered impossible because of several economic reasons.

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