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28 Jan
2011
What: Christmas message to bankers that they must pay their fair share.
This light-hearted Christmas stunt will take place outside HM Treasury. Santas, Robin Hoods and city speculators will be singing banker-themed Christmas carols and handing in 500 letters from the public to CEOs of UK’s top banks as they meet with George Osborne and Vince Cable.
When: 12.30pm Tuesday 21st December (rescheduled from Monday 20th)
Where: HM Treasury, 1 Horseguards Road (by St....
28 Jan
2011
David Hillman, spokesperson for the Robin Hood Tax campaign said:
“The Treasury says the £2.5bn bank levy is a ‘fair contribution’. Yet in the New Year when bankers will be paying themselves tens of billions of pounds in bonuses, the rise in VAT will be hitting the poorest hardest. That does not look like a ‘fair contribution’ to most people.
“Having received over a trillion in public bailout money, the banks can afford to pay an extra £20...
28 Jan
2011
Thirty-six organisations from across Europe have written to Commission
Vice President Baroness Ashton calling on her and European Development
Ministers to back the Financial Transactions Tax (FTT) which is on the
agenda of today’s meeting of overseas Development Ministers from across
Europe.
The organisations supporting the initiative included church groups, AIDS
charities and development NGOs, environmental groups and trade unions,
such as:
· the United Reformed...
28 Jan
2011
A survey by Astbury Marsden, financial service recruiters, shows pay of senior investment bankers in the City has jumped by 20 per cent in the last year, yet dissatisfaction remains.
Responding to the survey, David Hillman, Robin Hood Tax Campaign spokesman, said: “The suggestion that despite receiving pay rises of 20% investment bankers will still be disappointed shows just how far removed from reality the City of London has become.
“Rather than receiving massive pay...
28 Jan
2011
According to a leaked Whitehall document, banks are in discussion with government to avoid paying new financial sector taxes by striking a deal to use money lying in dormant bank accounts to fund the Big Society bank.
David Hillman, spokesperson for the Robin Hood Tax campaign said:
“Financial institutions can’t escape their obligations to society with cheap tricks. They are offering money from other people’s bank accounts when they can afford £20billion a year...
24 Nov
2010
A modern day Robin Hood and his merry men chase a City banker around the City of London in ‘HOOD’, the winner of ‘Tights. Camera. Action”, a film competition launched by Robin Hood Tax campaign
The silent movie-style film is a fast-paced short film that wowed a panel of judges including Richard Curtis and Sienna Miller. Judges said the film presents the idea of a tax on banks to raise money for the poor and the planet in a funny and exciting way.
Two hundred people...
10 Nov
2010
In response to the report David Hillman, spokesperson for the Robin Hood Tax campaign, said:
“The UN Advisory Group now agrees with both the IMF and EC that financial sector taxes can generate billions in new and additional revenue to help us meet our global challenges.
“It is another call to arms that banks can and should give something back to the global community. The UN could be more ambitious – banks can easily afford the US$100billion set out in the report and...
05 Nov
2010
G20 leaders meeting in Seoul this week are being asked to listen to their people rather than the banks, and tax financial transactions fairly, in a letter published today (Monday) and signed by 183 organisations from 42 countries around the world – including members of the UK-based Robin Hood Tax campaign.
The global alliance, the largest coalition ever seen in favour of an international Financial Transactions Tax (FTT), is made up of development, health, education,...
01 Nov
2010
On the eve of the Anglo-French Summit CEOs of more than 50 organisations including Barnardo’s, Christian Aid, Oxfam, Tearfund, TUC and UNISON representing millions of citizens have written to David Cameron asking that the UK join with France in forging an EU wide financial sector tax.
The Summit comes at a unique moment: the UK government has pledged to go further than its £2.5 billion bank levy, the European Commission and IMF both agree new bank taxes...
01 Nov
2010
Robin Hood Tax campaign spokespeople David Hillman (Coordinator, Stamp Out Poverty), Owen Tudor (Head of European Union and International Relations, TUC) and others are available for interview both ahead of and in response to bank quarterly results.
Banks have returned to sky high profits and bonuses whilst the mess they created continues to affect ordinary people through spending cuts and tax rises. The Robin Hood Tax campaign is calling on the financial sector to make a greater and...