花旗集团英国首席执行官李蒂娜（Tiina Lee）表示，即便英国政府在下一份预算案中选择上调银行附加税，花旗仍致力于留在英国。
Inc. is committed to staying in the UK even if the government chooses to raise the bank surcharge in its next budget, according to the firm’s UK chief executive officer, Tiina Lee.
李周二在接受彭博电视台采访时表示，提高银行税的决定将是“令人失望的消息”。“但当然，这并非全部。政府保持财政责任很重要。”各银行正急切等待本月晚些时候公布的预算案，外界预计财政大臣约翰·希利将提高对贷款机构的税收，以为选民的生活成本支持提供资金，并帮助稳定英国的公共财政。
A decision to increase bank taxes would be “disappointing news,” Lee said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Tuesday. “But, of course, it’s not everything. It is important that the government maintains fiscal responsibility.”Banks are eagerly waiting for the budget later this month, when Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey is expected to raise taxes on lenders to fund cost-of-living support for voters and help stabilize the UK’s public finances.
“当然，我们必须等到下周，”她说。不过，“方向确实感觉稍微更清晰了一些。”
“Of course, we have to wait until next week,” she said. However, “it does feel as if the directional travel is a little bit clearer.”
包括摩根大通的杰米·戴蒙在内的外国银行高管批评了额外征收银行税的想法，认为此举将抑制增长和竞争力。戴蒙今年早些时候曾表示，如果政府实施“对银行怀有敌意”的政策，该公司可能会放弃其新伦敦总部的计划。李表示，花旗没有减少其在伦敦存在的计划，该公司最近在金丝雀码头启用了重新开发的总部。“我们哪儿也不去，”她说。
Executives of foreign banks, including JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon, have criticized the idea of levying additional bank taxes, arguing such a move would stifle growth and competitiveness. Dimon said earlier this year that the firm could scrap its plans for its new London headquarters if the government implemented policy that was “hostile to banks.”Citi has no plans to reduce its presence in London, where it recently opened its redeveloped headquarters in Canary Wharf, Lee said. “We’re not going anywhere,” she said.
李表示，对英国CEO和企业而言，拥有“政策确定性”和“一致性”很重要，希望预算案能带来这一点。这对于帮助企业在英国做出长期决策至关重要。
For UK CEOs and companies, it’s important to have “policy certainty” and “consistency,” which hopefully the budget will bring, Lee said. That’s imperative to help companies make long-term decisions around the UK.