{"id":6340,"date":"2010-03-11T00:11:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T22:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=6340"},"modified":"2010-03-11T00:11:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T22:11:14","slug":"eu-parliament-backs-financial-transaction-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/03\/11\/eu-parliament-backs-financial-transaction-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Parliament backs financial transaction taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ukpress\/article\/ALeqM5guSSZsBli1W5gRPMHmsukaNmgo0w\">The Press Association: MEPs call for tax on rich banks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The PA reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Euro-MPs have called for an EU \"Robin Hood tax\" on rich banks to help fund development policies for the poor.<\/p>\n<p>An overwhelming vote in favour of the move was welcomed by the TUC and Oxfam, but condemned by Tory MEP Kay Swinburne as giving tax-raising powers to Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>A resolution approved by 536-80 votes said a \"Financial Transaction Tax\" could be used for \"innovative financing\" for climate change or development projects. It backed a worldwide tax but asked the European Commission to look into how to implement such a tax at EU level if a global agreement cannot be reached.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The campaign for financial transaction taxes marches on.<\/p>\n<p>And rightly so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Press Association: MEPs call for tax on rich banks. The PA reports: Euro-MPs have called for an EU &#8220;Robin Hood tax&#8221; on rich banks<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/03\/11\/eu-parliament-backs-financial-transaction-taxes\/\"><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":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transaction-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340","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=6340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}