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The cuts announced last week will hurt, not help, the poorest in our society. In the same week banks announced bonuses at pre-crash levels. So now it's time for justice. It's time for justice for ordinary families and businesses. So for every cut that made on the 20th – we and thousands of others have been asking the question – couldn’t a Banking Tax have helped pay for that – instead of us?
Last week we knew we needed...
At a historic Civil G20 Dialogue meeting in Seoul last week, one of the G20 Sherpas (as the top negotiators for the G8 and G20 Summits are called) told me, "Please keep pushing on the financial transaction tax. We need you to do so. It's like with the landmines treaty. Governments said it couldn't be done. You in the NGOs kept pushing. And it happened. This can happen too. It will happen – if you keep pushing us."
The Financial...
Last Thursday, Oxfam North-West hosted a public discussion on how bank taxes could be used to find money to make sure rich countires keep their promises on helping the world's poorest adapt to the changing climate.
Rachel Reeves MP, (Leeds West) and champion of the Robin Hood Tax, was a panellist on a ‘Question Time’ style public debate last night at the Quaker Meeting House in Leeds City centre. Cuts of £18bn and VAT...
UNICEF UK are a member of the Robin Hood Tax coalition. This blog was written by Samah Abbasi, International Policy and Research Officer at UNICEF.
Last week, the Government announced that it would meet its commitment to increase aid to 0.7 per cent of gross national income (GNI) by 2013. Given that it also announced significant cuts across other areas of public spending, the coalition certainly deserves...
