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The long read · Chapter 04

…per year. A tax on trading. We call it the Ubuntu Tax. Ubuntu is an African word. It means: I am because we are. The tax is small, and it falls on every trade in these markets. What it would raise. A…

The policy

…would raise $158 billion per day. We call it the Ubuntu Tax. Ubuntu is an African word. It means: I am because we are. The money would pay for truth, healing and repair, and for free food, housing,…

Reparative Justice · Part 2 · Truth, healing and repair

…banks, and other financial firms. The Ubuntu tax is a small incremental tax applied to all transactions across all exchanges and markets, building on existing financial transaction taxes operating in…

The Financial Transaction Tax · Part 1 · Why this tax is different

…truth, healing a repair. A global policy (the Ubuntu tax) for reparations from enslavement and colonialism. For emancipation and liberation. Raising the tax rate to weaken capitalism in order to…

Reparative Justice · Part 3 · Emancipation and liberation

…can only occur by abolishing capitalism. The Ubuntu tax will over time increase to target the source of wealth and power in order to help dismantle corrupt capitalism. Raising the Revolutionary…

Reparative Justice · Part 1 · What reparations mean

…truth, healing a repair. A global policy (the Ubuntu tax) for reparations from enslavement and colonialism. For emancipation and liberation. Raising the Ubuntu tax to weaken capitalism in order to…

The Financial Transaction Tax · Part 1 · Why this tax is different

…remain unless we force system change. Only the Ubuntu Restoration Tax targets capitalism at a systemic level for reparative justice and system change through the $16 trillion dollar day financial…

The long read · Chapter 05

…· Make it law. Build the pressure to make the Ubuntu Tax law. Start with at least the G7, a group of seven rich countries. Step four · Repair. Use the tax to end poverty and hunger. Free food,…

The argument

…going. A small tax on the financial markets, the Ubuntu Tax, can pay for repair. Raised over time, it takes wealth and power from the rich.

Reparative Justice · Part 8 · Empire and propaganda

…the system through non-violent means through the Ubuntu Restoration tax. Populations are subjected to propaganda with the purpose of creating fear in populations that gives rise to individualist,…

Reparative Justice · Part 10 · Climate and inequality

…settler colony, the US, and the target for the Ubuntu Restoration Tax. Exponentially rising inequality whether between rich and poor countries, or within countries between rich and poor people, can…

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…with your friends and your group. Read about the Ubuntu Tax, and talk about it. Capitalism must pay for truth, healing and repair, but full reparative justice is the dismantling of capitalism and…

The Financial Transaction Tax · Part 3 · How the tax works

A small tax on every trade, built on taxes that already exist. Here is how it works, and where the idea comes from. Tax stamps made for the Stamp Act. Old taxes like this one charged a small amount on…

The Financial Transaction Tax · Part 3 · How the tax works

The basic principle of taxing the trading of assets traded between wealthy people is long established. Taxes on the trade of major assets, such as company stock and property, have been in place for…

Reparative Justice · Part 3 · Emancipation and liberation

Only then can everyone. have equal access to shelter, food, education, health and opportunities. be able to move freely across a borderless world. have full rights over our unracialised bodies and…

The Financial Transaction Tax · Part 5 · Making it law

The systems to collect the tax are already in place. The richest countries must pass the law, after a global campaign. The United Nations General Assembly in New York. A global tax needs laws in the…

The Financial Transaction Tax · Part 6 · Who is who in finance

…International corporate, legal, financial and tax advisors/auditors. E.g. Deloitte, Price Waterhouse Coopers, KPMG, Ernst & Young. E.g. Baker McKenzie, Skadder, Clifford Chance, Linklaters,…

The Financial Transaction Tax · Part 1 · Why this tax is different

…of the biggest money centres in the world. This tax goes after the power that sits here. Reformist policies such as wealth taxes or one-off reparations payments miseducate the public and help expand…

The Financial Transaction Tax · Part 1 · Why this tax is different

…people and corporations on the planet by taxing the trading done on the world’s major markets and ‘assets’ at a wholesale level, such as shares, derivatives, debt, gold and oil markets. This FTT is a…

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…across the G20, two in three people backed a tax on the wealth of the very rich. A small tax on trades in financial markets. A tax on extreme wealth. Closing the tax havens. Fair rules for countries…