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It's amazing how much can happen in twelve months. And what has happened has been amazing. The Robin Hood Tax has moved from being a great idea with some support to being talked about by world leaders, hitting the headlines across the globe, and Bill Gates, the Vatican and 1,000 Economists lining up in support.
And it's no exaggeration to say this couldn't have happened without your support. There are plenty of great ideas, but the ones that...
Some of the City of London's largest banks are involved in tax avoidance which ‘cheats’ European countries of millions of pounds a year, according to new study by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
The £65.7bn market in European equity dividends whose "central"...
For the past two weeks the UN Conference of Parties (COPs) have been meeting in Durban, South Africa, to discuss and negotiate steps to tackle climate change.
There is now an urgent need to adapt to climate change that is ‘already in the system’. Rising sea levels, the increased frequency of droughts and other extreme weather events only illustrate this. We also need to start shifting to a low-carbon global economy in the long-term. Funding...
Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman has today reiterated his support for a Robin Hood Tax on financial transactions.
Writing in the New York Times, Krugman suggested a tax on both financial transactions and high incomes as a way of raising revenue.
Speaking about a Financial Transaction Tax, Krugman said:
“And...
