{"id":9153,"date":"2011-03-11T13:09:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T11:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=9153"},"modified":"2011-03-11T13:09:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T11:09:16","slug":"new-early-day-motion-in-parliament-supporting-financial-transaction-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/03\/11\/new-early-day-motion-in-parliament-supporting-financial-transaction-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"New Early Day Motion in Parliament supporting Financial Transaction Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new EDM, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm\/cmedm\/110310e01.htm\">number 1579<\/a>, has been tabled in Parliament in support of a financial transaction tax. It says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>FINANCIAL TRANSACTION TAX<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Lucas John McDonnell Bob Russell<\/p>\n<p>That this House welcomes the vote by the European Parliament in favour of two resolutions on 8 March 2011 proposing the introduction of a Robin Hood tax on financial transactions, clamping down on tax havens and introducing measures aimed at tackling tax evasion; and calls on the Government to introduce urgently legislation that reflects this policy to ensure that the financial sector pays its fair share towards reducing the national deficit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Quite so.<\/p>\n<p>Worthy of the signatures of all MPs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new EDM, number 1579, has been tabled in Parliament in support of a financial transaction tax. It says: FINANCIAL TRANSACTION TAX Caroline Lucas John<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/03\/11\/new-early-day-motion-in-parliament-supporting-financial-transaction-tax\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,55,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-avoidance","category-tax-evasion","category-transaction-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153","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=9153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}