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The RobbingHoods campaign in the the UK seem to have softened their demands after the IMF report. In the light of the inevitable they are now generously prepared to accept hundreds of billions of dollars (of other peoples money) through any type of tax. It doesn't necessarily have to be a...

http://www.forexyard.com/en/news/G20-must-make-Basel-III-top-priority-sources-2010-04-20T124406Z-WRAPUP-1 [...]Agreeing tough new bank capital rules should take precedence over imposing a bank levy in global efforts to learn from the financial crisis, the G20 countries will be told later this...

IMF Said to Recommend G-20 Tax Banks’ Liabilities or Profits http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-19/imf-said-to-recommend-g-20-tax-banks-liabilities-or-profits.html [...]The fund’s preliminary report, to be presented to G-20 finance ministers and central bankers meeting in...

Searching for news items on this resolution fund, no other sources refer to a transaction tax, but some have referred to a levy. Bloomberg say Barnier proposes that banks contribute to the fund with a special tax on their balance sheets...

EU plans bank ‘resolution’ fund http://www.examiner.ie/world/eu-plans-bank-resolution-fund-117502.html [...] Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier put forward the ideas for the so-called Resolution Fund to the ministers, who were meeting informally in Madrid and discussed them...

Oxfam might come out big losers from all this. They won't get their tranny tax, and how many donors on Wall Street or The City will want to donate to them now? It doesn't pay to bite the hand that feeds you.

More bleating from the usual suspects: http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/04/15-8 What is clear today though is that all the remaining pro-FTT voices are from 'outside the tent' and have no power to shape policy. In both the US and Europe, the IMF, the Central Banks, the Finance...

Brussels gets cold feet on financial transactions tax http://www.euractiv.com/en/financial-services/brussels-gets-cold-feet-on-financial-transaction-tax-news-441845

IMF advises G20 against fin. transaction tax - report http://in.reuters.com/article/economicNews/idINIndia-47533720100408 BERLIN (Reuters) - The International Fund Monetary sees severe difficulties in implementing an international transaction tax and regards a bank levy as more practical...

IMF targets banks with 'excess profits tax' The International Monetary Fund is poised to recommend an unprecedented new "excess profits tax" on banks worldwide. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/7557409/IMF-targets-banks-with-excess-profits-tax.html The Fund...

http://dc.streetsblog.org/2010/04/05/what-happened-to-the-proposed-transportation-tax-on-wall-street/

:eek: Had me going for a second! :)

“Tobin style” transaction tax all but dead (OK we know all this already but it's nice to read) http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62T2J320100330 [...] G20 finance ministers will review options from the IMF next month in Toronto on how to make the banks pay for rescues, the G20...

I agree. What comes out of Europe at the European Parliament level tends to be more 'aspirational' in content than what comes from the individual countries. Fortunately, it is still the individual countries that actually call the shots in terms of tax law. Basically the momentum...

The European Union’s commissioner for the internal market and services, Michel Barnier, sets out his new agenda for Europe: http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2010-03-29/barnier-sets-out-his-new-agenda-for-europe [...] FN: What is your view on trying to shrink the banks, for example...

:) French minister Lagarde pushes for bank levy http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=501658&in_page_id=2&position=moretopstories Daily Mail 24 March 2010, 8:42am French finance minister Christine Lagarde has predicted 'fast' international progress towards a...

Germany falling into line : http://www.forexyard.com/en/news/German-bank-levy-plan-boosts-chance-of-global-deal-2010-03-22T142733Z-UPDATE-2 BERLIN, March 22 (Reuters) - Germany's coalition has agreed to place a levy on banks to raise billions of euros for future bailouts, boosting the...

Welcome news! IMF's Strauss-Kahn casts doubt on transaction tax http://www.forexyard.com/en/news/IMFs-Strauss-Kahn-casts-doubt-on-transaction-tax-2010-03-17T122955Z BRUSSELS, March 17 (Reuters) - A tax on financial transactions to help pay for bailouts of failed banks would be...

Canada's finance minister Jim Flaherty today: http://www.iii.co.uk/news/?type=afxnews&articleid=7795679&action=article [...] However, he appeared doubtful that a clear consensus on regulatory reform would appear by the time of joint G8 and G20 meetings in Toronto at the end of June. "I...

There is an article in favour of the Robin Hood tax here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7061026.ece Pour cold water on it in the comments section.