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The article discusses the history of financial exchange taxes and a proposal in eleven European Union (EU)countries to impose a new tax, sometimes called Börsenumsatzteur (stock revenues tax) and at other times called Transaktionssteuer (transaction tax). Topics include rising tax bureaucracy in the EU, and the previous financial market tax law, instituted in 1994, and rescinded in 1991.