Podatek transakcyjny jako instrument kontroli – zachowanie stabilności rynków finansowych w UE

The growing volume of international short-term capital transfers, which destructively affects the stability of financial markets, as well as high costs that the states had to cover to eliminate the effects of the crisis, are the reasons for which governments tend to blame financial institutions for generating risks and making markets unstable. Since the beginning of 2014, the financial transaction tax has been discussed and argued about in the European forum, and is ready to be introduced. The article presents the concept of the new tax instrument, to be applied in the European Union Member States. In order to discuss the importance of the tax, arguments for its implementation have been listed, as well as consequences of its application in the context of the stability of the European financial market.