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Futures Markets: A Futures Transaction Fee Is Administratively Feasible

GGD-94-40 Published: Oct 28, 1993. Publicly Released: Oct 28, 1993.
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Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the feasibility of implementing a futures transaction fee to fund additional Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) enforcement and market surveillance activities, focusing on whether the fee will provide CFTC with additional resources to oversee the futures markets.

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