Reuters: US Dollar Report: EU ministers allow 11 countries to pursue transactions tax

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EU ministers allow 11 countries to pursue transactions tax Jan 22nd 2013, 11:32 BRUSSELS | Tue Jan 22, 2013 6:32am EST BRUSSELS Jan 22 (Reuters) - A majority of European Union finance ministers voted on Tuesday to allow Germany, France and nine other euro zone countries to prepare to introduce a tax on financial transactions, said two officials who attended the meeting. The vote clears the way for Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Portugal, Belgium, Estonia, Greece, Slovakia and Slovenia to press ahead with their own tax on trading. "The decision on a financial transactions tax through enhanced cooperation was adopted," said one official at the talks. "Britain, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic and Malta abstained (in the vote)."

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