BERLIN (Reuters) - The German Finance Ministry does not expect a financial transaction tax for 11 euro zone countries to be introduced before 2016, according to a report in Germany's Wirtschaftswoche business weekly magazine.
Wirtschaftswoche quoted a senior Finance Ministry official, Michael Sell, telling a meeting of accountants in Berlin that the financial transaction tax would not be collected until 2016, or about two years later than previously believed, due to the pace of international negotiations and technical reasons.