{"id":11461,"date":"2011-08-12T08:34:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T07:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=11461"},"modified":"2011-08-12T08:34:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T07:34:39","slug":"a-robin-hood-tax-is-deliverable-says-imf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/08\/12\/a-robin-hood-tax-is-deliverable-says-imf\/","title":{"rendered":"A Robin Hood Tax is deliverable says IMF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Owen Tudor<a href=\"http:\/\/touchstoneblog.org.uk\/2011\/08\/imf-issues-toolkit-on-how-to-implement-robin-hood-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\"> at the TUC has noted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The IMF has issued a\u00a0<a title=\"IMF working paper WP\/11\/85\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imf.org\/external\/pubs\/ft\/wp\/2011\/wp11185.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">working paper<\/a> which explores the practicalities of implementing Financial Transaction Taxes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His analysis is well worth reading. But as he notes, the IMF concluded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In principle, an FTT is no more difficult and, in some respects easier, to administer than other taxes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As some of us have argued for quite a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Now, please do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Owen Tudor at the TUC has noted: The IMF has issued a\u00a0working paper which explores the practicalities of implementing Financial Transaction Taxes. His analysis<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/08\/12\/a-robin-hood-tax-is-deliverable-says-imf\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,121,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imf","category-transaction-taxes","category-tuc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}