Financial Sector Taxes

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This paper, written for the Robin Hood Tax Campaign, assesses the scope for the UK's financial institutions to pay an additional £20 billion annually in tax revenues in order to provide funds that could be used to fight poverty and climate change, and examines the distributional impact of such taxes.

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