“Our argument is that all the extra tax paid by the banks will naturally be passed onto their end customers. We’re not going to see banks making less money because of the FTT. Banks will seek to recover the costs of the FTT from their customers. It’s a proposal that fails to hit the target that it’s intended to hit.”

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“Our argument is that all the extra tax paid by the banks will naturally be passed onto their end customers. We’re not going to see banks making less money because of the FTT. Banks will seek to recover the costs of the FTT from their customers. It’s a proposal that fails to hit the target that it’s intended to hit.”

—Richard Raeburn, chairman of the European Association of Corporate Treasurers, on the potential impact of the FTT on end-users.

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