Banks in the UK will be forced to pay more than £2bn ($3bn) in a new annual levy, George Osborne, the chancellor, announced yesterday, in what is expected to be the first of a series of taxes on large financial institutions in several developed economies.
The tax, to be paid from next January, will be imposed on UK banks and building societies as well as the UK operations of foreign banks.
Mr Osborne stressed that France and Germany had also pledged to introduce a similar bank levy, although full details have not yet been provided.
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