Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Pre-ECOFIN Briefing: Minister for Finance

8:50 pm

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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We have a financial transaction tax, a 1% stamp duty on shares. The only other country that has such a tax is the UK at 0.5%. The French have been pushing to introduce it at 0.1% and are participating in the financial transaction tax talks. However, the proposals are going nowhere at the moment. This is the position.