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Parliamentary briefings are opportunities to present research, ideas and arguments to MPs and their staff. The Robin Hood tax campaign hosted its first briefing in March. Robin was invited back to parliament on 11 th October by Chuka Umunna, MP for Streatham and Parliamentary Private Secretary, who hosted a Robin Hood Tax briefing for the new Parliament.
Twenty-five MPs, and representatives from different groups and interested parties...
We know that bank taxes can are a complicated issue. In order to clear up the confusion the Robin Hood Tax campaign was delighted to have Professor Joseph Stiglitz on hand to explain why and how they should work. He took part in a media call with representatives of big media outlets in eleven countries.
Professor Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (...
18 months ago the idea of taxing the banks was being dismissed out of hand. Today the European Commission (the executive body of the EU) outlined their vision for taxing the financial sector. It’s big news.
The EC’s plans for taxation are guided by the firm conviction that the financial sector needs to make a fair contribution to public finances, and that governments urgently need new sources of revenue in the current economic climate....
A new Report: Raising Revenue, a review of Financial Transaction Taxes throughout the world shows that FTTs have been implemented either permanently or temporarily in at least 40 countries over the last decades, generating billions in revenue from financial markets.
Critics would have you...
