The Robin Hood Tax is a tax on the financial sector which could raise up to £20 billion a year in the UK to help tackle poverty at home and abroad and help poor countries adapt to climate change.
To keep up with the latest news, visit the Robin Hood Tax coalition blog or follow the UNICEF UK campaigns team on Twitter: @UNICEFUK_action.
More countries continue to announce their support for the campaign, including Spain who announced this on 16 January. Last December, Germany and France continued to push for a Robin Hood Tax with Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy calling on Eurozone countries to introduce a financial transaction tax for Europe. Italy and Belgium have also joined the call for a European wide tax. At the G20 summit last November, a growing number of G20 countries such as Argentina and Brazil also backed the Robin Hood Tax.
Momentum is building and leaders such as David Cameron who opposed the tax look increasingly isolated. This happened because millions of people like you forced the Robin Hood Tax onto the political agenda. We'll keep you updated on what you can do next.
UNICEF UK is a key member of the Robin Hood Tax coalition, and in the build-up to the G20 we joined other merry men and women outside the House of Parliament on Wednesday 2 November to call on MPs to raise the issue with David Cameron (see photos below). Over 80,000 of you had joined the Robin Hood Tax coalition's last minute action to the Prime Minister.
David Cameron has said he will support the tax if it is global but we want him to join the growing list of countries such as France, Germany, South Africa, Brazil and Argentina who want to bring in this great new way of raising money to deal with climate change, development and poverty regardless of whether global agreement can be reached.
