The importance of the story on Glencore’s tax this morning is easily missed. It’s not that Glencore is avoiding tax: I’m not sure that is new to
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As Owen Tudor has reported on the TUC’s Touchstone blog: The European Parliament voted yesterday — by a thumping 487 to 152 — for a Europe-wide Financial
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This week is a big one for the Robin Hood Tax, with major developments in the USA and Europe. Despite regular reports of its demise
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I have shamelessly lifted the following from Owen Tudor on the TUC’s Touchstone blog: A new report, launched in Brussels on Monday by the Socialists and Democrats in
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Much of Europe wants a financial transaction tax (FTT). The reason why is obvious: they need the money. The UK is adamant it will have no such
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A Robin Hood Tax – a financial transaction tax – is back on the agenda thanks to the EU, and rightly so. I wrote about
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The reality that banks are out of control and that you can’t run a common market without some degree of commonality in tax has finally
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As Owen Tudor at the TUC has noted: The IMF has issued a working paper which explores the practicalities of implementing Financial Transaction Taxes. His analysis
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1,000 economists (with me included in that number) have written to the G20 and Bill Gates to call for a financial transaction tax. We said:
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