The Taxation of Financial Assets

Download or read book The Taxation of Financial Assets written by Mr.John R. King and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1995-05-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taxes affect the degree and efficiency of financial intermediation in many different ways. This paper summarizes the main tax provisions in OECD countries that affect the overall “tax wedge” between pre-tax returns on investments, and the post-tax yield on the savings that finance them. This tax wedge is shown to vary widely, in individual countries, according to the different ways in which savings are channeled through financial markets. The paper then discusses alternative criteria for assessing tax regimes for financial assets, and summarizes recent trends in OECD countries.