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“The trading tax should cover stocks, ownership interests, most taxable bonds and notes, derivatives, digital assets, securities swaps, certain corporate stock transactions, and many derivative payments, while exempting newly issued securities, very short-term debt, and some securities lending deals.”
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“U.S. exchanges, U.S. brokers, or direct trading parties should be responsible for paying the trading tax depending on how a trade happens, and Treasury should collect transaction reports for covered trades, including some trades by controlled foreign corporations.”
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“Covered purchases and transfers of stocks, ownership interests, debt, derivatives, and digital assets should face a federal transaction tax when they use U.S. markets or involve U.S. people, with rates varying by the type of investment or contract.”
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“The federal government should charge a small tax when stocks, bonds, and derivatives are traded.”
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“Eligible individual investors should be able to claim a nonrefundable income tax credit for trading taxes tied to securities they beneficially own, including taxes paid first by brokers, exchanges, or others and then assigned to the real owners under Treasury rules.”
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“Eligible individual investors should be able to claim a refundable tax credit for transaction tax paid on trades they really own, but the credit should be limited by income, age, citizenship or permanent-resident status, student status, and certain prior-year refund-offset status.”
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“The trading tax should leave out first sales of new securities used to raise money, exchange-traded debt that matures in 100 days or less, and certain real estate, commodity, compensation, insurance, affiliated-company, securities-lending, repo, and similar financing contracts when they meet the conditions for exclusion.”
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“The trading tax should cover many stock, debt, ownership-interest, and derivative trades when they use U.S. trading venues or involve U.S. parties, including some cross-border trades, property swaps, redemptions, liquidation payments, derivative payments, and depositary receipts tied to foreign shares.”
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“The transaction tax should skip many first issuances of securities, debt due in 60 days or less when traded on U.S. facilities, and qualifying securities loans, while still treating swaps and some corporate redemptions or liquidations as taxable events.”
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“Treasury should write anti-avoidance rules, IRS whistleblower rules should apply, missing covered-trade reports should trigger penalties, Treasury should set those penalty amounts, and the IRS Commissioner should be able to cancel penalties without court review of that choice.”
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