"This is an Autumn Statement for bankers, " said David Hillman of the Robin Hood tax campaign.
The Robin Hood Tax campaign is an attempt to bring in a global financial transactions tax.
It looks like the European Union is going to try and implement a version of this Robin Hood Tax.
Oxfam has also released a report advocating a financial transaction tax, which it refers to as a Robin Hood Tax.
The tax - also known as the "Tobin tax" or "Robin Hood tax" - would be placed on each individual financial transaction.
Pomeranets and Weaver reviewed market quality to answer the following questions: Is a Robin Hood tax effective at reducing volatility and speculative trading?
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Implement a Robin Hood Tax on Wall Street trading and speculation.
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The Robin Hood Tax campaign just wants the banks to pay lots and the European Commission thinks the cash should really be sent to the EU Commission.
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Russia is opposed to taking the Robin Hood tax global.
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The 99 percenters at Occupy Wall Street are hoping their European counterparts can pressure G20 leaders this weekend into adopting what they call a Robin Hood tax on financial transactions.
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The Robin Hood tax, sort of like a Tobin tax, was proposed by Germany as a means to raise revenue for countries hit hard by the 2008 housing and credit markets crash.
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Then there are those3 who think there should be a financial transactions, or Robin Hood tax: failing to realise that it would be consumers who end up paying this not banks or bankers.
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"It's beyond belief that in a year marked by dodgy dealings, 200 of HSBC's top brass are celebrating bonuses greater than many people earn in a lifetime, " said David Hillman of the Robin Hood Tax campaign.
On September 28th it formally proposed a financial-transactions tax (FTT), otherwise known as a Tobin tax after James Tobin, a Nobel economics laureate who put forward a similar scheme for currency markets in 1972 or a Robin Hood tax by those who want to use the proceeds for aid purposes.
Despite hostility from Britain and the US, the Microsoft founder will add weight to the growing campaign for a so-called Robin Hood tax when he tells the two-day summit in Cannes that a levy on finance would help hard-pressed rich nations to meet their aid pledges to the poor.
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Bill Gates is announcing that he supports the Robin Hood, or Financial Transactions, Tax in order to raise revenue to be spent on aid to the poor in the Third World.
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In February, it came to light that an informant sold German officials the names of 1, 400 LGT clients when a tax sweep in Germany resulted in the arrest of a prominent executive for tax evasion. (See "The Robin Hood Of Taxes") The United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Italy and several other countries soon joined the investigation.
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