The experience of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is the latest example of how raising or changing financial transactions taxes can damage market liquidity. In spite of a genuine need for governments to increase revenues, FTTs create negative shock waves that threaten what exchanges and economies do best; there are other approaches to taxation that hurt less.
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