sol comments on Italy shocks banks with 40 percent windfall tax for 2023

[–] sol@lemm.ee 29 points 3 years ago (2 children)

They have since announced that it will be capped at 0.1% of a bank's assets: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/09/business/italy-bank-windfall-tax-change/index.html

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[–] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

It should be noted that this was in response to bank stocks rapidly collapsing. It seems pretty doubtful that this was planned or they would have included it in the original announcement.

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[–] what_is_a_name@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago

Or they wanted the headlines for people who will never read the update.

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