A tax on old age?

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Pension funds could soon have to bear the cost of a Europe-wide tax on equity, bonds, 
currency and derivative transactions, finds Lynn Strongin Dodds

A tax on financial transactions may be firmly on the European Union agenda but there is already dissension in the ranks not only among member states but also financial experts, trade associations a...

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