One of the advice industry's top challenges is to fend off state attempts to tax financial transactions even as more lawmakers in Washington are warming to the idea. Chet Helck, CEO of the Global ...

As discussions about the federal budget abound, political pundits are wrongly seeking out new taxes. One misguided proposal is a U.S. financial transaction tax, which would likely apply to trading ...

Leading GOP members of the House Financial Services Committee have introduced legislation to block states from imposing financial transaction taxes (FTTs) on stock exchanges and broker-dealers. The ...

A bill that would impose a tax on high-volume financial transactions in New Jersey will be the subject of a hearing in the state Assembly next week. The meeting Monday of the Financial Institutions ...

I have been pushing for financial transactions taxes (FTT) for more than three decades. The logic is straightforward. We have an enormous volume of transactions in the financial sector that serve no ...