This is the complete text of a letter calling for a financial transaction tax. It is signed by 350 economists from dozens of countries, including two Nobel laureates.
Dear G20
As economists from across the world, we call on you to implement a financial transaction tax (FTT).
This tax is an idea that has come of age…. More >>
Still not sure about the Robin Hood Tax? Veteran journalist and broadcaster Phillip Adams digs into how the Robin Hood Tax works and why it should go ahead.
Speaking on his Late Night Live program on the ABC last night, Adams interviewed world-renowned philosopher Peter Singer and leading Australian economist Ross Buckley on the ins and… More >>
“For the first time in history we have the ability to eradicate large-scale extreme poverty and the suffering it brings. The question is whether we have the will to do it. Growing support for a global financial transaction tax – known as the Robin Hood Tax – offers an exciting glimmer of hope this really… More >>
World Vision Australia CEO and renowned humanitarian Reverend Tim Costello today threw his support behind the Robin Hood Tax on Channel Seven’s Sunrise.
“If this was just Tim Costello talking, you might say, ‘Oh, bleeding heart.’ But this has the support of [Speaker of the US House of Representatives] Nancy Pelosi and Obama before he… More >>
Some of Australia’s best and brightest have joined the global campaign for the Robin Hood Tax, writes ABC economics correspondent Stephen Long.
“Advocates say the tax would reduce damaging financial speculation and create a giant pool of money that could be used to feed the hungry and combat global warming,” Long writes.
“It is a modern version… More >>
PRESS RELEASE: 30 MARCH 2010
Renowned Australian philosopher and ethicist Professor Peter Singer, international banking expert Professor Ross Buckley, political satirist Julian Morrow and Reverend Tim Costello have come together to support Australia’s involvement in a worldwide initiative to reduce global financial instability called the Robin Hood Tax. Peter Singer, Ross Buckley, Julian Morrow and Tim… More >>
Nearly 800 years after Robin Hood began launching raids from Sherwood Forest, redistributing wealth from the rich to the poor is back on the agenda.
“[And] while the banks will inevitably attempt to position the concept as a feel-good aberration from a handful of hippies beating their drums, it is anything but,” writes Jo-Anne Schofield, executive… More >>
Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Warren Buffett and George Soros all agree on one thing.
They all agree on the need for a financial transactions tax, writes Ross Buckley, professor of international finance law at the University of NSW, in The Sydney Morning Herald.
“Buffet and Soros have made their fortunes in the share and foreign exchange markets,… More >>
Wall Street has become so “politically powerful that it has written its own ticket for the past 25 years in a way that’s shocking,” said Jeffrey Sachs, renowned economist and professor at Columbia University, New York.
“The results are shocking. The lack of political responsibility is shocking.
“Wall Street has had the most profitable year in its… More >>
The Robin Hood Tax is one of the great opportunities of our time, says American Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.
“The benefits are twofold,” he says in an article in the London Evening Standard.
“In general, the tax philosophy should be to tax bad things rather than good – so pollution should be taxed more than… More >>
