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Unless the system is changed, tax revenues from the financial system may never reclaim the heights they reached earlier this decade.
ECONOMIST: Governments will need to find new ways of raising tax
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Consumers because absolutely everything is made through the intermediation of the financial system and at each point of such contact with that system the tax will be charged.
FORBES: The Truth About the Financial Transactions Tax or the Robin Hood Tax
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Japanese companies concentrated on investment not profits because the financial system and the tax regime encouraged them to do just that.
ECONOMIST: Worse to come
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Since the 1980s, one section of the party has been determined to implement a political agenda that's favourable to the rich, especially in regard to tax cuts for those on higher incomes and the deregulation of the financial system.
BBC: Wall street sign
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The hot new idea in the U.S. and Europe, sure to come up at the June global G-20 meeting, is to impose a tax on large banks, the proceeds to be used to build a reserve fund to rescue the financial system in the next financial crisis, rather than the history of having to use tax-payer money each time.
FORBES: Don't Feed Stray Banks; Bailout Fund A Lousy Idea
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Restore the financial system and the economy, spur growth and these tax receipts will reappear.
FORBES: Raise Taxes To Kill A Recovery And Nail The Coffin Shut
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While our flawed tax system is not the only cause of our current financial woes, many believe fixing it would be good start.
FORBES: Distrust And Disenchantment With IRS Make Reform Inevitable
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Now it is back at the front line of gargantuan bail-out packages, wrangling over government spending and tax reform, and attempts to stop sovereign defaults further disturbing the jittery global financial system.
ECONOMIST: The Russian default