Italy shocks banks with 40 percent windfall tax for 2023 - eviltoast
The move comes after higher interest rates have yielded record profits for banks as the cost of loans has soared.
    • Osayidan@social.vmdk.caEnglish
      432·
      1 year ago

      I tried thinking of them and started laughing. Tried a second time to be sure and it happened again. Am I doing it right?

  • meseek #2982@lemmy.ca
    963·
    1 year ago

    after reprimanding lenders for failing to reward deposits

    This really is key. Think bank for a second. They make oodles off cash of nothing. Nothing. Just other people’s money. Think what you could do in 30 days with $6b. And what do the millions of people who pooled that $6h get? Fees. Nothing. There’s no interest for chequing, which the banks have set up to be the only way really to bank with. Savings net you next to nothing (do banks really think .5% is enough when they likely double your money day to day).

    And incentivizes to deposit? Yeah, zero.

    So they take all your money, charge you for it, make a killing, pay next to no taxes and call it a day.

    And here I am slaving away making nothing, paying 45% in taxes, all the while making them rich. I’m so done with capitalism which has turned out to be every bit as bad as every other kind of government that came before it.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      4·
      1 year ago

      To be fair, we don’t want them doing too much stuff with our deposits, since they have to be able to give it back at any point. IIRC they earn most of their money off of lending as a result.

      And here I am slaving away making nothing, paying 45% in taxes,

      Where the fuck is that one of the lower tax brackets? Where I live 48% is the highest possible rate, including taxes from all levels of government. I hope your government services are pretty dope with that much funding.

    • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
      31·
      1 year ago

      Just for what facts are worth, interest rates on savings account are a good 8x higher than 0.5%, at least in a lot of American banks right now. I’m not sure where you are exactly, but central bank rates have risen essentially everywhere, so you should absolutely be able to find better rates than that.

      For $10,000 left sitting for 5 years, at 4% that becomes $12,100. At 0.5%, it’s $10,250.

          • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            Governments change, the current one handled this crisis pretty well. Spain also became a de facto lider in Europe on energy policy.

              • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
                11·
                1 year ago

                I don’t know where are you getting this from. The have better GDP forecast than Germany for example and one of the lowest inflation in EU. Part of this is thanks to lower energy prices achieved thanks to policies that are now copied by other countries. And the current government did pretty good in elections just couple weeks ago so I don’t think people feel overtaxed. Biased much?

                • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  The unemployment rate is horrendous, at 13.3% in the first quarter of 2023. In comparison, Germany was at around 5.5%, the UK at about 3.8%, and the US at around 3.5%.

                  Edit: And when you scope that to youth unemployment, the rate in Spain is nearly 30%. I won’t pretend to know enough about Spanish economic policy to speculate on causes, but things are not exactly going well.

    • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
      12·
      1 year ago

      It should be noted that this was in response to bank stocks rapidly collapsing. It seems pretty doubtful that this was planned or they would have included it in the original announcement.

  • suoko@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    They will increase all wages thanks to that extra money. It’s a joke, a joke gov that should be either upgraded or removed 🥳