Sienna Miller dresses up as Robin Hood for the Robin Hood Tax campaign. © Robin Hood Tax campaign
The Robin Hood Tax, a tax on banks, could raise up to £20 billion a year to help protect millions of children's rights by tackling poverty at home and abroad and helping countries adapt to climate change. It can start right now, right here in the UK.
The UK Government agreed in June 2010 to tax the banks, partly thanks to your campaigning. It announced a £2.5 billion tax, and has also said it would be interested in further taxing banks on profits and bonuses, but more could still be raised.
Why now?
The finance sector has bounced back from the economic crisis, with profits and bonuses for 2010 likely to be between $600 billion and a trillion dollars worldwide. At the moment the sector does not pay enough tax, and a tax on banks could help protect the rights of millions of children around the world.
UNICEF UK is a member of the Robin Hood Tax coalition.