Dear Commissioner Hogan, Ahead of the vote on the European Commission’s proposal on public tax transparency by the College of Commissioners, we wish to highlight the importance of such a measure and call on you to vote in favour of it. This is a … [Read more...]
Financial Transaction Taxes, Capital Markets Union and Brexit
Following the financial crisis of 2008, the European Commission introduced in 2011 a proposal for a tax to be levied on financial transactions. This did not meet with agreement from all member states, but eleven EU countries (Austria, Belgium, … [Read more...]
Resource List of Documents relating to the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement, CETA
The CETA agreement could be with us as early as May 13th and is a far more pressing danger than the TTIP even if it is far less well known. The following is a list of documents useful to those of us keen to know its implications, it’s from a mostly … [Read more...]
London Review of Books Lecture by James Meek. “Taxation, ‘Robin Hood in a Time of Austerity'”
The Robin Hood Tax or Financial Transaction Tax (often labelled an FTT in the acronym soup of financial jargon) is a tiny tax on the financial sector, typically only a fraction of one percent. The key reasons for its implementation we can see from … [Read more...]
Robin Hood Tax Campaign website launched!
Over 40 leading civil society organisations have so far joined with Claiming Our Future to call for the introduction of a Financial Transaction Tax in Ireland. We are united in the belief that the brunt of the financial crisis should not be burdened … [Read more...]
