Sunday, Oct 18, 2009
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The Telegraph: Tax raid on banks planned by ministers
Ministers are drawing up plans for a tax raid on Britain’s banks worth hundreds of millions of pounds.
Posted by devo @ 12:14 AM (779 views) Add Comment
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1. paul said...
The all-too-common zero percent on current accounts and daily charges for authorised overdrafts means the banks are already raiding their customers.
2. devo said...
'the banks are already raiding their customers'
But it isn't enough.
Cough up taxpayers.
That means you.
QE 2.0
3. Philip 9134 said...
The chances of this government standing up any of the banks, is almost as low as the interest rates. Besides their man in the EU will stand up for them.
4. letthemfall said...
I hope this comes to fruition. The case for a windfall tax seems overwhelming, more so than that on oil companies in the past. (I don't remember the 1981 tax though.)
5. crunchy said...
Doublespeak- more burden on the customer/taxpayer will be the net result.
6. Carol said...
Appears the first two commenters didn't read the article. This is a tax on banks and their obscene behaviour and obscene profits.
May be a "populist" move by Brown et al, but it is long overdue.