Tax financial transactions to help Covid recovery, G20 told
Economists say Tobin taxes would raise vital funds to help support global poor and tackle climate crisis
September 2019
Economics viewpoint
Labour's tax on City deals would be a big vote winner
Larry Elliott
Financial sector is rattled by John McDonnell’s support for an FTT that would raise about £7bn a year
May 2017
Economics viewpoint
Is Labour's manifesto living in fantasy land? Quite the opposite
Larry Elliott
Imperfect it may be, but Labour’s manifesto recognises the economic status quo can’t be kept going for much longer
May to appeal to low-paid voters with new social housing pledge
May is announcing the proposal to create a new generation of housing to rent as Labour reveals its Robin Hood tax
A Labour tax bombshell is a very good idea: the rich should pay their share
Paul Mason
To properly fund schools and hospitals, the left must commit to bold and clear ways of raising extra money
February 2017
Economics blog
Post-Brexit UK economy demands a new type of Robin Hood tax
Avinash Persaud
There is a progressive alternative to the Brexiters’ mythical Victorian free-trade golden age. All it needs is a simple regulatory change
January 2017
Economics viewpoint
Brexit has allowed the banks to get off Britain's naughty step
Larry Elliott
The City rigged markets, laundered money and mis-sold products, but has diverted attention by threatening to leave London
June 2016
Project Syndicate economists
The overselling of financial transaction taxes
Kenneth Rogoff
A ‘Robin Hood tax’ would not have stopped the 2008 financial crisis. We need better regulation of financial markets and a progressive tax on consumption
April 2015
Other lives
Anthony Clunies-Ross obituary
Economics blog
Taxing times: banks are the golden goose that won't hiss too much
Larry Elliott Economics editor
June 2014
RBS to face fury of investors at AGM over bonuses for bank bosses
Ross McEwan, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, in line for £1m a year in share allowances that sidestep EU bonus cap
May 2014
George Osborne should be grateful for the Robin Hood tax
Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson
Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson: The chancellor has failed to block a tax that could halve child poverty and check a bloated financial sector. Brussels is serving UK interests best
April 2014
Economics blog
High-frequency trading is a blight on markets that the Tobin tax can cure
A tax on financial transactions can calm the frenzy of speculation fuelled by computer-driven algorithms
February 2014
Bill Nighy: how bankers could be heroes (and even help stop the floods)
Bill Nighy
City bonus row reignites with Barclays to admit £2bn in payments
January 2014
Angela Merkel warns US over surveillance in first speech of third term
'A programme in which the end justifies all means … violates trust,' German chancellor says
October 2013
Germany wants the Robin Hood tax – and Europe's voters do too
Stephany Griffith-Jones
Stephany Griffith-Jones: No argument against a financial transaction tax has stood up to scrutiny, so politicians must resist lobbying and see sense
June 2013
Economics blog
Reports of the death of the Financial Transaction Tax look exaggerated
The City is lobbying like crazy against the FTT and its campaign is succeeding, on the face of it …
May 2013
Bank of England more upbeat on UK economy
At the Bank's quarterly inflation report and his last as governor, Sir Mervyn King predicted modest economic growth this year and a fall in inflation
April 2013
George Osborne to challenge proposed financial transaction tax in court
Chancellor appeals to European court of justice over plan for worldwide euro levy put forward by 11 EU countries
