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Support global currency tax (Tobin Tax)
Should global transactions in currency be taxed in order to help raise money?
Alliance Party Alliance endorses the introduction of a small tax on international financial transactions, such as the proposed 'Tobin Tax' . Organised multilaterally, the proceeds would fund international development. Source: Alliance Party
Conservative According to Chancellor George Osborne, "A Tobin tax [a proposed tax on international financial transactions] won't raise much revenue".
Green Party "In the long term we would promote international funding (perhaps from a Tobin Tax to buy out the owners of certain patents, based entirely on global social and environmental usefulness, with the patent becoming available to all once the payment had been made". Source: Green Party http://policy.greenparty.org.uk/ec.html
Plaid Cymru Plaid Cymru upport the 'Tobin' or 'Robin hood' tax as a means of encouraging more responsibility and stability in the global markets. Source: BBC Manifesto Watch, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29642613
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