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Wall Street warns that a little judgment in the Donald Trump budget bill allows the government to raise taxes on foreign investment in the United States can increase markets and hit the American industry.

Section 899 of the draft law that the House of Representatives passed last week will allow the United States to impose additional taxes on companies and investors from countries that are considered punitive tax policies. Taxes can be raised on a wide range of foreign entities, including US -based companies with foreign owners and international companies with American branches and investors.

Article 899 can calm investment in companies and suffocate the demand for American assets Foreign investors They are already withdrawn from the American market. This decline, which was quick to the Trump administration tariff policies, comes because the United States relies more than ever on foreign investors to buy its increasing shares of government debt.

“This is a delay in the market, as it has already reached fragile confidence, especially from foreign investors.”

“It is all the wounds that the self has suffered at a time when you have a lot of debts that need funding here. So the timing is very bad.”

A senior executive official in a senior Wall Street Bank “This is one of the most anxious ideas that came out of the capital this year. If this is progressing, it will definitely cool foreign investment in the United States.”

Morgan Stanley analyst said that Article 899 may pressure the dollar and “treatment of foreign investment”, while JPMorgan noted that “great effects on both the United States and foreigners.”

Article 899 targets the countries called by the United States “unreasonable foreign taxes.” Most countries of the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and others around the world will be affected, according to law firm Devis Polk.

For foreign investors, the 899 section of taxes and benefits will increase on American stocks and some corporate bonds by 5 percent each year for a period of four years. It will also impose taxes on the American wallet holding for sovereign wealth funds, which are currently exempt.

“The long -term effects (they are) will be very severe for international companies operating in the United States,” said Jonathan Samford, head of the Global Business Alliance, a commercial group representing the largest foreign multinational companies invested in the United States.

“This judgment will not affect the bureaucrats in Paris or London. It will affect American workers in Paris, Kentucky and London, Ohio.”

“While the administration is seeking foreign investments in the United States to support job creating, form capital and reformulate manufacturing capacity, this could be inverse,” said Tim Adams, CEO of the International Finance Institute, which represents 400 of the largest banks and financial institutions in the world.

“Any disabling of the flow of capital and foreign direct investment can have unintended negative consequences for American companies, jobs and economic competitiveness.”

While foreign investors in American stocks and some corporate bonds may face higher taxes, it is unclear whether this tax will extend to the debt of the treasury, according to many analysts and investors. Usually the interest acquired on the cabinet bonds is usually tax -exempt for investors stationed outside the United States, and making this taxable will represent a tremendous change in the current policy.

“Article 899 is legally vague in terms of potential necessity on treasury bonds,” said Luis Alexander, the chief economist in the hedge fund, Rokos Capital Management. “The imposition of taxes on treasury bonds may be inverse, as any possible revenue is likely to exceed an increase in borrowing costs (where investors sell debts).”

But even if taxes are not imposed directly on the treasury, Article 899 will represent another concern for international holders of US debt when many are cautious about the country’s inability to coincide with customs tariffs in the country.

“Our foreign clients are calling us about this,” said the administrative director of a large American bond fund. “It is not quite clear whether taxes will be imposed on Treasury Holdings, but our foreign investors currently assume they will be.”

Participated in additional reports from Martin Arnold in New York and Costas Mandespas in London