This is an archive website of the Robin Hood Tax campaign - our work continues at Make Polluters Pay
In a nutshell, the big idea behind the Robin Hood Tax is to generate billions of pounds – hopefully even hundreds of billions of pounds. That money will fight poverty in the UK and overseas. It will tackle climate change.
And it will come from fairer taxation of the financial sector.
Just over six weeks of the Robin Hood Tax could hire almost 20,000 extra doctors
Two weeks of the Robin Hood Tax could pay Carers' Allowance to 50,000 people for a whole year
One week of the Robin Hood Tax could pay for nearly 1 million ambulance visits
