El FMI considera la opción de aplicar un impuesto del 10% a los ahorros para reducir la deuda en la eurozona.

Post del forero Sr. Mojón de burbuja.info

El FMI considera la opción de aplicar una quita del 10% a los ahorros para reducir la deuda en la eurozona.

Aquí tenéis el documento (página 49, 58 del PDF)

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/…pdf/fm1302.pdf

The sharp deterioration of the public finances in many countries has revived interest in a “capital levy”— a one-off tax on private wealth—as an exceptional measure to restore debt sustainability.

The appeal is that such a tax, if it is implemented before avoidance is possible and there is a belief that it will never be repeated, does not distort behavior (and may be seen by some as fair). There have been illustrious supporters, including Pigou, Ricardo, Schumpeter, and—until he changed his mind—Keynes. The conditions for success are strong, but also need to be weighed against the risks of the alternatives, which include repudiating public debt or inflating it away (these, in turn, are a particular form of wealth tax—on bondholders—that also falls on nonresidents).

There is a surprisingly large amount of experience to draw on, as such levies were widely adopted in Europe after World War I and in Germany and Japan after World War II. Reviewed in Eichengreen (1990), this experience suggests that more notable than any loss of credibility was a simple failure to achieve debt reduction, largely because the delay in introduction gave
space for extensive avoidance and capital flight—in turn spurring inflation.
The tax rates needed to bring down public debt to precrisis levels, moreover, are sizable: reducing debt ratios to end-2007 levels would require (for a sample of 15 euro area countries) a tax rate of about 10 percent on households with positive net wealth
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Debatamos amigablemente 

Frases para enmarcar:

“if it is implemented before avoidance is possible and there is a belief that it will never be repeated”

“Si es implementado con nocturnidad, alevosía y sólo la puntita sacándola enseguida” 

“reducing debt ratios to end-2007 levels would require (for a sample of 15 euro area countries) a tax rate of about 10 percent on households with positive net wealth”

¿Alguien sabe cuánto tendrían que robar de los depósitos españoles para alcanzar los niveles de deuda de 2007? 

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