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  • 21 Mar 2013
    How the Chancellor isn't 'getting rid of the UK's Financial Transaction Tax'

    In the Budget statement yesterday (20 March 2013), the Chancellor George Osborne reiterated how he was turning his back on a share of the £30-35bn a year which would come from a small Financial Transaction Tax. This is while other countries in Europe including France, Germany and Spain, benefit from it.

  • 2 Dec 2012
    The Robin Hood Tax, Malawi, and action to tackle AIDS

    The Robin Hood Tax Campaign, to which Ekklesia is affiliated, works for the introduction of a Financial Transaction Tax. It also examines the difference an FTT could make in relation to poverty, the environment and challenges like the AIDS pandemic.

  • 15 Aug 2012
    The 'economically inactive': Useless or undervalued?

    A term often featured in discussions around the state of the economy is ‘economically inactive’.

    This rather dismissive term is used to refer to people who are neither employed nor actively seeking employment. They may be raising children, studying, caring for a sick relative, or just generally making the world a better place in their own unique way, but if they’re not a cog in the economic machine, they count for very little in the minds of many politicians and economists.

  • 23 May 2012
    Plaid slam Labour and Tories over Robin Hood Tax

    Plaid Cymru have attacked the Conservatives and Labour for failing to support the introduction of a Robin Hood Tax on financial transactions.

  • 17 Jan 2012
    UK to be left isolated, lose out on billions in public spending, as FTT goes ahead

    The UK is set to miss out on billions of pounds of public spending as other countries in Europe push ahead with a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) leaving David Cameron sidelined.

  • 23 Nov 2011
    Assessing the Government's position on a Financial Transaction Tax

    At the G20 Cannes Summit my colleague Tina Weller accused David Cameron of being cynical for hiding behind the likes of Barack Obama and Julia Gillard, by choosing only to support taxes on financial transactions as a nice idea in theory.

  • 8 Nov 2011
    Elephants in the G20 meeting room

    At the end of the G20, Nicolas Sarkozy’s frustration at the UK’s stance on a number of issues, including the financial transaction, or Robin Hood tax, was evident. During journalists’ questions at the final communiqué press conference, the BBC’s Paul Mason got short shrift from the French President.

  • 3 Nov 2011
    G20 and beyond: restless for justice

    What a difference a day makes. I sketched out some lines to write on the way to the G20 in Cannes, buoyed up rather by the appearance of Dr Rowan Williams on the front page of the Financial Times on Wednesday.

  • 3 Nov 2011
    More pressure on Cameron over Robin Hood Tax at G20

    David Cameron needs to stop hiding behind the US and support a financial transaction tax to combat poverty and climate change, says CAFOD.

  • 3 Oct 2011
    'Cuts are not the cure', says 35,000 strong protest at Tory conference

    Some 35,000 people have descended on the annual Conservative Party conference in Manchester to oppose 'vicious' cuts in public spending.