情人士透露，英国财政大臣约翰·希利已告知各大银行负责人：他尚未决定是否在本月的预算案中对银行业征税。
Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey told the heads of Britain’s big banks that he hasn’t yet decided whether to tax the sector in this month’s Budget, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
这位不愿透露身份的知情人士称，希利表示英国目前面临严峻的财政状况，但尚未作出任何征税决定。据悉，希利周二会见了多家银行的高层，包括汇丰控股的乔治斯·埃尔赫德里、巴克莱银行的CS·文卡塔克里希南、劳埃德银行集团的查理·纳恩以及NatWest集团的保罗·斯韦特。
The chancellor said the UK faces a tough fiscal position, but no decision on tax has been made, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing private information. Healey met with banking leaders on Tuesday including HSBC Holdings Plc’s Georges Elhedery, CS Venkatakrishnan at Barclays Plc, Charlie Nunn from Lloyds Banking Group Plc and Paul Thwaite at NatWest Group Plc, the person said.
近期，银行业领袖们一直担心希利会在本月预算案中考虑对本土银行加征额外税项以增加财政收入。据彭博社报道，这种税项可能以“暴利税”的形式出现，且不会波及外资银行。
The meeting comes as bank leaders worry that Healey is considering levying extra taxes on domestic lenders in this month’s Budget to help raise revenues. That could be in the form of a windfall tax that won’t affect international banks, Bloomberg has reported.
另有两位知情人士透露，会议还探讨了银行如何运用储户存款的问题。主流银行通常将资金用于向中小企业及其他领域发放贷款；但也有部分金融机构，包括一些金融科技公司，选择将存款存放在英格兰银行而非用于放贷。英国财政部发言人暂未对此事作出回应。
There was also a discussion about how banks put savers’ deposits to work, with mainstream lenders cycling them into lending to small businesses and other areas, two people familiar with the talks said. A point was made on how institutions including some financial technology firms leave those deposits with the Bank of England, rather than deploying it into loans. A spokesperson for the Treasury didn’t immediately comment.
据与会人士称，参加此次早餐会的银行高管们指出，英国各大银行的股份实际上由国际投资者持有。他们强调，即便政府仅对本土银行征收额外税项，也仍会抑制外资对英国市场的投资热情。
Banking bosses who attended the breakfast meeting with Healey and City Minister Lucy Rigby argued that international investors own shares in big UK banks, the people said. The government will still depress overseas investment into the UK even if it limits an extra tax to domestic lenders, the CEOs argued in the meeting.
据其中一位知情人士透露，桑坦德银行英国区负责人马赫什·阿迪蒂亚以及英国最大的互助型建房互助会——Nationwide Building Society的负责人黛比·克罗斯比也出席了会议。
Mahesh Aditya, head of Banco Santander SA’s UK business and Debbie Crosbie, who runs the UK’s largest mutually-owned building society, Nationwide Building Society, were also in attendance, one of the people said.
据知情人士透露，这些首席执行官们还担忧，由英格兰银行制定的资本要求标准比其他地区更为严格，从而抑制了信贷投放。上述人士称，希利似乎对银行家们提出的希望英格兰银行重新评估这些标准的诉求表示理解。
The CEOs also raised concerns that the UK’s capital requirements, set by the Bank of England, are tougher than those in other jurisdictions, which holds back lending, according to the people with knowledge of the matter. Healey appeared sympathetic to the bankers’ calls for the BoE to revisit those standards, the people said.