Should there be a tax on financial transactions to raise funds to tackle climate change and poverty? The Robin Hood Tax - an enhanced version of the long discussed Tobin Tax - would be a tiny tax on financial transactions and could raise as much as £20 billion annually in the UK alone to tackle poverty and climate change here and abroad. With growing support from the European Community, IMF and the Leading Group of 60 nations, this is the closest the tax has ever come to implementation. Does it provide the answer to the ballooning deficit, or does it risk destabilising or driving away financial activity?

Will George Osborne move beyond the limited financial activities tax on bank pay and profits he is proposing, and support a broader Robin Hood Tax? The day after the Comprehensive Spending Review, Bristol Festival of Ideas and Oxfam bring together a panel of distinguished experts to tackle these questions and battle it out.

The panel brings together David Hillman, Coordinator, Stamp Out Poverty; Professor David Gordon, Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol; Stephen Williams MP, Bristol West; and Professor Laurence Copeland, Professor of Finance and Co-Director of Investment Management Research Unit, Cardiff Business School (and member of Institute of Economic Affairs) who will oppose the tax.

Fee: £4.00 / £3.00.

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