The country imposes an indiscriminate levy on all gadgets capable of recording or storing sounds and images, but the EU has ruled this illegal and Spain says it will modify it.
The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of.
This will be paid for by a tax on businesses that fail to provide health insurance, a levy on hospitals and yet more taxes for that much put-upon group, smokers.
An attempt to introduce a levy on foreign workers (known as non-doms) was botched, and may yet drive many high-earners out of the country.
The proposal that seems to be gaining most traction is for a liquidity facility funded by a levy on the industry, akin to the FDIC’s deposit-insurance scheme for banks.
There are proposals to push losses onto their creditors, although until these look sturdier Banks should continue to be charged a levy on their debts and prodded to reduce them further.
So a levy on these extra liabilities would serve to limit Banks' borrowing abroad.
There he warned voters to "look under the hood" of Mr Brown's truck and mocked him for opposing the new levy on big Banks.
The European Commission officially unveiled a scheme to insure against bank crises in member states, funded by a levy on financial institutions.
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