{"id":20310,"date":"2012-10-01T12:03:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T12:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=20310"},"modified":"2012-10-05T17:03:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T17:03:28","slug":"robin-hood-tax-begins-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/20310","title":{"rendered":"Robin Hood Tax begins in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rebecca McDowall, HIV i-Base<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Robin Hood Tax campaign are celebrating victory after a 0.2% financial transaction tax (FTT) came in to effect in France on 2 August 2012.<\/p>\n<p>This was just days after the campaign featured strongly in the March to end AIDS in Washington France became the first country to implement this new type of taxation.<\/p>\n<p>Former French President Sarkozy first announced plans to introduce a 0.1% financial transaction tax in January. This was later doubled by his successor President Hollande. The tax is expected to raise half a billion euros in the first year, with a pledge from President Hollande that a part of the revenue will go towards combating AIDS.<\/p>\n<p>The Robin Hood Tax campaign hopes that this step by the French President will act as a signal to other countries, including the UK, to rethink their position on the FTT.<\/p>\n<p>For further information, and to support the campaign, visit the Robin Hood Tax website:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/robinhoodtax.org.uk\/\">http:\/\/robinhoodtax.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca McDowall, HIV i-Base The Robin Hood Tax campaign are celebrating victory after a 0.2% financial transaction tax (FTT) came in to effect in France on 2 August 2012. This was just days after the campaign featured strongly in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-treatment-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}