{"id":12149,"date":"2011-09-29T09:15:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T08:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=12149"},"modified":"2011-09-29T09:15:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T08:15:48","slug":"taxing-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/09\/29\/taxing-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxing banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Robin Hood Tax - a financial transaction tax - is back on the agenda thanks to the EU, and rightly so.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote about this in 2010 in a joint publication called '<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Documents\/IMFTaxingBanks.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Taxing Banks<\/a>'. In it I set out the data supporting such a tax, estimated how much it would\u00a0raise\u00a0and suggested - contrary to the claim of bankers - that the charge would not end up falling on bank\u00a0customers\u00a0but on the banks themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing much has changed in the meantime - except the extent of regret at not acting sooner - so I offer the\u00a0publication\u00a0again now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Robin Hood Tax &#8211; a financial transaction tax &#8211; is back on the agenda thanks to the EU, and rightly so. I wrote about<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/09\/29\/taxing-banks\/\"><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":[70,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking","category-transaction-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149","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=12149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}