Our initiative consists on promoting the Tax to Financial Transactions Tax, so we have created a petition on change.org for collecting signatures supporting this tax. We have sent this petition through e-mail to friends, teachers, families, NGOs and even the members of the Europea Parliament.
For disseminating our initiative and promoting the European Union:
-We have informed about everything that we have done in our social nets.
-We went to a radio station (Onda Cero) and to a newspaper, Diario de Burgos, where we were interviewed about our project in Euroscola.
-We have given talks about the European Union in some Primary Schools and we made a video about it.
-We have made a Glogster, in which we summarized our initiative and incorporated links and videos we made.
-We have interviewed the citizens about their opinion about the EU and the FTT, and we have made a video.
-We also have made booklets with information about the European Countries and the EU institutions in collaboration with other students of our class. With them, we created a mural about the European Union, in our High School.
-We have drawn a comic about the FTT and designed designed a poster for promoting the FTT.
-We have talked with some economists and philosophers, in order to understand better the European Union.
We were supposed to participate in this contest in English but, as we wanted to reach many people (from different ages, countries...) we have translated every text that we have written and subtitled all the videos, so each text is in both languages: English and Spanish.


That´s how we work / Así trabajamos...

lunes, 7 de abril de 2014

Financial Transactions Tax / Impuesto a las Transacciones Financieras.

The tax to financial transactions (FTT), called Tobin tax initially, in honor to the American economist James Tobin, is a type of tax levied all kinds of actions of buying and selling in the Stock Market. Initially, this tax was devised to tax only the purchase and sale of shares...
European economists have worked on this tax and it has been estimated that taxing with 0.1% this type of financial transactions in the European Union  could raise about 50 billion euros per year its revenue.
 This enormous amount of money could be used for  the NGOs that work for social development and against global poverty, to less developed countries within the European Union, improving the health, education and technological development; also promoting the entrepreneurship of small and medium enterprises.

 According to statistics, about 95 of every 100 pounds sterling belong to the fictitious money from financial in stock market movements and speculation.

Below we leave you the link of a video which explains in a more graphic way what is and how works this tax.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKp0EJQAY9o
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El Impuesto a las Transacciones Financieras (ITF), llamado en un principio Tasa Tobin, en honor al economista estadounidense James Tobin, es un tipo de impuesto que grava todo tipo de acciones de compra-venta en los mercados financieros. En un principio, este impuesto fue ideado para gravar solo la compra y venta de acciones. 
Expertos de la Unión Europea han trabajado en este impuesto y han calculado que gravando con un 0,1% o un 0.01 dependiendo del tipo de producto,  en la Unión Europea se podrían recaudar cerca 50 mil millones de euros al año.
Esta ingente cantidad de dinero podría destinarse a las ONG que trabajan por el desarrollo social y contra la pobreza mundial, a los países menos desarrollados dentro de la Unión Europea, mejorando la sanidad, la educación y el desarrollo tecnológico. También podría utilizarse para fomentar el emprendimiento de pequeñas y medias empresas.

Abajo dejamos el enlace a un vídeo en el que se explica de manera más gráfica qué es y cómo funciona este impuesto:


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