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The Robin Hood Tax Campaign
 
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Sign the petition to G20 leaders
 
Join our band of Merry (Wo)men

Be a Merry (Wo)Man on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and all those other places you spend your 5-minute tea breaks. Spend those “tea breaks” telling people how the Robin Hood Tax can fight poverty, protect public services and raise money to tackle issues you are care about. We’ve got some fun hash tags and other stuff to make it easy. Use our photos as your profile picture.
 
Mask Up Merry Men!

So much better than suiting up and so much easier too: We’ve got a mask you can download, cut out and parade about in. If our cardboard mask isn’t really your style, show off your DIY skills and make your own. What about the first knitted Merry Men mask? Or how one that camouflages into the woods? Or forgot all that and just go glam – sequins, feathers the lot. Whatever you do, show it off. Take a photo of yourself as a Merry (Wo)Man and put it up on our Flickr or Facebook page, place it anywhere as long as you add the #RHT we can find it.
 
Bring Sherwood to your street

Is your street still feeling a bit grey? Think this tax is the sort of good idea that would cheer anybody up? Let your neighbours know that Robin Hood is here – put up a poster in your window, a mask around your letterbox or in your windscreen. Why not chat to them about it over the garden fence? Inviting them to be ‘Be Part of the World’s Greatest Bank Job’ will make a nice change from the weather.
 
Always wanted a ‘Merry’ politician?

We think the Robin Hood Tax campaign is something that everyone can support, from nurses to bankers, from mums to students to even politicians. If you were to ask your member of parliament which would they rather: raise VAT, cut public services or tax a banker? We’re pretty positive we know what their answer will be.
Write to your national or EU member of parliament telling them about the campaign. We’ve got templates and number crunching facts to help you make a great argument for why the Robin Hood Tax is a winner.
Visit your national or EU member of parliament – they work for you after all. Tell them how the Robin Hood Tax will help prevent cuts to public services and stop tax increases – it’s a win-win discussion.

 
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The Robin Hood Tax - A Good Idea

A small change for the banks.
A big difference for the world.

The Robin Hood Tax is a tiny tax on banks and other financial institutions that would raise billions to tackle poverty and climate change, at home and abroad.

It can start as low as 0.005 per cent - and average 0.05 per cent . But when levied on the billions of dollars, pounds, euro and yen sloshing round the global finance system every day through transactions such as foreign exchange, derivatives trading and share deals, it can raise hundreds of billions of pounds every year.

And while international agreement is best, it can start right now, right here in Europe. That can help stop cuts in crucial public services in Europe, and aid the fight against global poverty and climate change.

What would it cover?

It would include transactions involving stocks, bonds, foreign exchange, and derivatives (including trade of futures and options related to stocks, interest rate securities, currencies and commodities).

It would cover all transactions traded on exchanges as well as off-exchange (or "over the counter" (OTC) ).

It would be limited to transactions between financial market actors. Ordinary consumer transactions such as payments for goods, paychecks and cross-border remittances would not be subject to the Robin Hood Tax. Short-term inter-bank lending and central bank operations would also be excluded from the Robin Hood Tax.

Who's in?

Angela Merkel (the German Chancellor) and Nicolas Sarkozy (the French President) have all spoken out in support of a tax on financial transactions.

Plenty of business bigwigs are on-board too. Lord Turner (from the Financial Services Authority), George Soros (the philanthropist) and Warren Buffet (US businessman extraordinaire) have all backed transaction taxes. And then there are the hundreds of economists who have backed the idea, too.

This isn't some crazy pipedream. It's a simple and brilliant idea which transcends party politics and which - with your support - can become a reality.

 
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