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In the face of the doom and gloom of cuts being reported the Robin Hood tax campaign provided a welcome alternative for the media. A stunt on Monday created a stir in the media, with local and national press reporting the potenital of a bank tax to tackle the spending cuts announced yesterday.
Media interest was sparked after campaigners took to the treasury to bring the message to George Osborne that a Robin Hood Tax offers a real alternative to...
The cuts announced in today's CSR will have a drastic impact on the lives of people living in the UK.
Helen Longworth, Acting Director of UK Poverty for Oxfam, shared some thoughts with us::
“Oxfam are pleased with the government’s commitment to invest more than £2 billion, so the Department for Work and Pensions can simplify the welfare system and made work pay. Forcing people to live below the bread-line should never be a...
Merry men took their message to HM Treasury today that Robin Hood Taxes offer a real alternative to George Osborne's spending cuts.
The government has put 'fairness' at the heart of its agenda yet banks, which are largely responsible for the UK's fiscal troubles, are returning to record-breaking profits and bonuses. They can afford to pay an additional £20 billion in tax which would avert the worst of the cuts and protect the...
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....
