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A Bottom-Up Approach to Righting Financial Regulation
www.rightingfinance.org
The global financial and economic crisis has laid
bare the myth that giving free rein to the market will
automatically promote stable economic growth and
the realization of continuous improving living standards
for all. It has shown the global consequences of failing
financial regulatory measures1
and growing income
inequality2
—both widely cited as significant structural
root causes of the 2008 financial crisis. The recovery
of the financial markets appears in the short term to
have reduced the pressure for more systemic change.
In the longer term, however, the failure to address
these structural roots of the crisis is likely to continue
to spawn growing social unrest in the face of austerity
and renewed financial volatility. As such, the human
rights movement faces an unprecedented opportunity
for revisiting and revitalizing the struggle for economic
and social rights by demanding accountability for failures
to protect human rights through economic policy. The
establishment of a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) would
be an important step in that human rights direction.
What is the FTT?
The FTT currently under debate has two basic policy
objectives. First, it would raise significant revenue. By
introducing a tiny tax rate on the trading of bonds,
shares, and derivative products, such as futures
contracts,3
the FTT would yield about US$48 billion at
its lowest rate across the G20 countries, with higher
rates offering up to US$250 billion per year4
—significant
amounts to offset the widespread austerity measures
in countries North and South. Second, the FTT aims to
stabilize financial markets by discouraging speculation
(especially in high-frequency trades) and mitigating price
volatility.
Why is the FTT the Right Thing to Do?
The FTT is a human rights imperative on three
grounds. First, human rights law obliges governments
to cooperate in the mobilization of the maximum of
available resources required to provide social services,
battle widening income inequality and otherwise realize
economic and social rights without discrimination.
Taxation on income and consumption are widely
understood as tools in doing so. Taxes on financial
products are equally justifiable.5
Financial transaction taxes are a mechanism for
reintroducing a measure of equality and progressivity in
taxation systems, helping governments thereby to meet
their legal commitments to make substantial resources
available to respect, protect and fulfill people’s rights.
In keeping with the imperative of accountability, non-
discrimination and equality, a human rights-centered
FTT would place those most affected by the crisis (in the
North and South) at the center of decisions about who
would benefit from the proceeds of the tax, through a
transparent and participatory mechanism to distribute
funds.
Second, governments are required to protect against,
and prevent, human rights abuses by third-parties,
including the very private financial actors whose
conduct spawned the global economic crisis. A financial
transaction tax is a tool to discourage excessive risk-
taking or speculation, reduce the financial incentive for
fast, high risk-taking transactions whose collapse caused
vast harm to the overall economy and human rights.
FTTs can aid governments to better manage risks in the
financial sector to mitigate the effects of financial sector
collapse, or reduce their likelihood of happening all
together.
Finally, human rights entail remedies. People whose
economic and social rights are infringed by crisis-
related economic policies have the right to obtain
appropriate, effective and proportional remedy. To be
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effective, remedies must lead to an end to any ongoing
violations, and ensure adequate reparation, including,
as necessary, restitution, compensation, satisfaction,
rehabilitation and guarantees of non-repetition. What
might constitute effective remedy for human rights
infringements resulting from the financial and economic
crises? Meaningful regulation of the financial sector in
systemically important countries would be one structural
step towards guaranteeing non-repetition.6
Redressing
the costs of the crisis by making fiscal policy more
progressive and redistributive nationally and globally
would also reflect governments’ legal commitment to
fulfill economic and social rights in non-discriminatory
ways, and ensure reparation to those affected. The FTT
is one such way of exacting accountability from those
responsible for the 2008 financial crisis, raising revenue
to contribute to effective remedies for the consequent
human rights impacts, and establishing transparent
mechanisms to mitigate the type of financial vulnerability
which led to the crisis to begin with.
Where the global financial crisis has brought about
the loss of millions of jobs, socialized debt accrued by
financial corporations and now risks significant human
rights harm through wide-ranging austerity packages,
financial transaction taxes are essential tools to providing
the means for governments to protect and fulfill the
human rights of their people. In so doing, the FTT is
one step toward addressing the structural causes of this
Great Recession and preventing a sequel to the 2008
global financial calamity.
(Endnotes)
1  See for example, UN General Assembly (2009) Resolution 63/303,
Outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and Economic
Crisis and its Impact on Development, 13 July 2009. A/RES/63/303,
para 7.
2  See for example Kumhof, Michael and Ranciere, Romain (2011)
‘Inequality, Leverage and Crises’ IMF Working Paper, WP10268 IMF:
Washington; Kumhof, Michael and Ranciere, Romain (2011) “Unequal
= Indebted,” Finance & Development, September 2011, Vol. 48,
No. 3; Aldo Barba and Massimo Pivetti, “Rising household debt: Its
causes and macroeconomic implications—a long-period analysis”
Camb. J. Econ. (2009) 33 (1): 113-137. doi: 10.1093/cje/ben030
First published online: August 5, 2008 http://cje.oxfordjournals.org/
content/33/1/113.abstract and Aldo Barba “The US Congress Inquiry
on the Financial and Economic Crisis,” Contrib Pol Economy (2011)
30 (1): 77-98. doi: 10.1093/cpe/bzr006; See UN (2009) Report of the
Commission of Experts of the President of the United Nations General
Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial
System, p.10
http://www.un.org/ga/econcrisissummit/docs/FinalReport_CoE.pdf
“National economic systems which give rise to high levels of inequality
pose problems, not only for social and political sustainability but also
for economic sustainability, i.e., excessive increases of household and
public debt. They may also contribute to an insufficiency of global
aggregate demand.”
3  A derivative is a financial contract whose payoffs are set in
relation to the value of other variables (the price of a commodity, the
probability of default of a debtor on a given debt, an interest rate,
etc.).
4  See Bill Gates’ “Innovation with Impact” report: http://www.
thegatesnotes.com/Topics/Development/G20-Report-Innovation-
with-Impact. Note also that some NGOs are pushing for even higher
rates of up to 1%, if implemented raising up to US$400-700 billion
annually. In parallel, a proposal by a group commissioned by the UN-
established Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development
has made a proposal for a levy on currency transactions which could
raise up to US$ 33 billion. This proposal has gathered the support
of several countries already (for more information see http://
leadinggroup.org/).
5  George Soros stated long before the economic crisis in 2001 in
regards to questions about whether taxes should extend more into
the financial sector: “The globalization of financial markets has given
financial capital an unfair advantage over other sources of taxation. A
tax on financial transactions would redress the balance. Why should
there be a Value Added Tax but no tax on financial transactions?”
See Soros, G. ‘George Soros: Open Societies, Sovereignty, and
International Terrorism’, Hong Kong, September 19, 2001. Available
at: http://asiasociety.org/business/development/george-soros-open-
societies-sovereignty-and-international-terrorism
6  For further ideas, see Margot Salomon, “Global Economic Policy
and Human Rights: Three Sites of Disconnection,” March 2010,
Carnegie Council at http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/resources/
ethics_online/0043.html

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Financial transactiontax issue3

  • 1. A Bottom-Up Approach to Righting Financial Regulation www.rightingfinance.org The global financial and economic crisis has laid bare the myth that giving free rein to the market will automatically promote stable economic growth and the realization of continuous improving living standards for all. It has shown the global consequences of failing financial regulatory measures1 and growing income inequality2 —both widely cited as significant structural root causes of the 2008 financial crisis. The recovery of the financial markets appears in the short term to have reduced the pressure for more systemic change. In the longer term, however, the failure to address these structural roots of the crisis is likely to continue to spawn growing social unrest in the face of austerity and renewed financial volatility. As such, the human rights movement faces an unprecedented opportunity for revisiting and revitalizing the struggle for economic and social rights by demanding accountability for failures to protect human rights through economic policy. The establishment of a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) would be an important step in that human rights direction. What is the FTT? The FTT currently under debate has two basic policy objectives. First, it would raise significant revenue. By introducing a tiny tax rate on the trading of bonds, shares, and derivative products, such as futures contracts,3 the FTT would yield about US$48 billion at its lowest rate across the G20 countries, with higher rates offering up to US$250 billion per year4 —significant amounts to offset the widespread austerity measures in countries North and South. Second, the FTT aims to stabilize financial markets by discouraging speculation (especially in high-frequency trades) and mitigating price volatility. Why is the FTT the Right Thing to Do? The FTT is a human rights imperative on three grounds. First, human rights law obliges governments to cooperate in the mobilization of the maximum of available resources required to provide social services, battle widening income inequality and otherwise realize economic and social rights without discrimination. Taxation on income and consumption are widely understood as tools in doing so. Taxes on financial products are equally justifiable.5 Financial transaction taxes are a mechanism for reintroducing a measure of equality and progressivity in taxation systems, helping governments thereby to meet their legal commitments to make substantial resources available to respect, protect and fulfill people’s rights. In keeping with the imperative of accountability, non- discrimination and equality, a human rights-centered FTT would place those most affected by the crisis (in the North and South) at the center of decisions about who would benefit from the proceeds of the tax, through a transparent and participatory mechanism to distribute funds. Second, governments are required to protect against, and prevent, human rights abuses by third-parties, including the very private financial actors whose conduct spawned the global economic crisis. A financial transaction tax is a tool to discourage excessive risk- taking or speculation, reduce the financial incentive for fast, high risk-taking transactions whose collapse caused vast harm to the overall economy and human rights. FTTs can aid governments to better manage risks in the financial sector to mitigate the effects of financial sector collapse, or reduce their likelihood of happening all together. Finally, human rights entail remedies. People whose economic and social rights are infringed by crisis- related economic policies have the right to obtain appropriate, effective and proportional remedy. To be Financial Transaction Tax: A Human Rights Imperative - Issue No. 3
  • 2. 202.635.2757 PHONE | 202.832.9494 FAX 1225 Otis St. NE | Washington, DC 20017 www.rightingfinance.org effective, remedies must lead to an end to any ongoing violations, and ensure adequate reparation, including, as necessary, restitution, compensation, satisfaction, rehabilitation and guarantees of non-repetition. What might constitute effective remedy for human rights infringements resulting from the financial and economic crises? Meaningful regulation of the financial sector in systemically important countries would be one structural step towards guaranteeing non-repetition.6 Redressing the costs of the crisis by making fiscal policy more progressive and redistributive nationally and globally would also reflect governments’ legal commitment to fulfill economic and social rights in non-discriminatory ways, and ensure reparation to those affected. The FTT is one such way of exacting accountability from those responsible for the 2008 financial crisis, raising revenue to contribute to effective remedies for the consequent human rights impacts, and establishing transparent mechanisms to mitigate the type of financial vulnerability which led to the crisis to begin with. Where the global financial crisis has brought about the loss of millions of jobs, socialized debt accrued by financial corporations and now risks significant human rights harm through wide-ranging austerity packages, financial transaction taxes are essential tools to providing the means for governments to protect and fulfill the human rights of their people. In so doing, the FTT is one step toward addressing the structural causes of this Great Recession and preventing a sequel to the 2008 global financial calamity. (Endnotes) 1  See for example, UN General Assembly (2009) Resolution 63/303, Outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development, 13 July 2009. A/RES/63/303, para 7. 2  See for example Kumhof, Michael and Ranciere, Romain (2011) ‘Inequality, Leverage and Crises’ IMF Working Paper, WP10268 IMF: Washington; Kumhof, Michael and Ranciere, Romain (2011) “Unequal = Indebted,” Finance & Development, September 2011, Vol. 48, No. 3; Aldo Barba and Massimo Pivetti, “Rising household debt: Its causes and macroeconomic implications—a long-period analysis” Camb. J. Econ. (2009) 33 (1): 113-137. doi: 10.1093/cje/ben030 First published online: August 5, 2008 http://cje.oxfordjournals.org/ content/33/1/113.abstract and Aldo Barba “The US Congress Inquiry on the Financial and Economic Crisis,” Contrib Pol Economy (2011) 30 (1): 77-98. doi: 10.1093/cpe/bzr006; See UN (2009) Report of the Commission of Experts of the President of the United Nations General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System, p.10 http://www.un.org/ga/econcrisissummit/docs/FinalReport_CoE.pdf “National economic systems which give rise to high levels of inequality pose problems, not only for social and political sustainability but also for economic sustainability, i.e., excessive increases of household and public debt. They may also contribute to an insufficiency of global aggregate demand.” 3  A derivative is a financial contract whose payoffs are set in relation to the value of other variables (the price of a commodity, the probability of default of a debtor on a given debt, an interest rate, etc.). 4  See Bill Gates’ “Innovation with Impact” report: http://www. thegatesnotes.com/Topics/Development/G20-Report-Innovation- with-Impact. Note also that some NGOs are pushing for even higher rates of up to 1%, if implemented raising up to US$400-700 billion annually. In parallel, a proposal by a group commissioned by the UN- established Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development has made a proposal for a levy on currency transactions which could raise up to US$ 33 billion. This proposal has gathered the support of several countries already (for more information see http:// leadinggroup.org/). 5  George Soros stated long before the economic crisis in 2001 in regards to questions about whether taxes should extend more into the financial sector: “The globalization of financial markets has given financial capital an unfair advantage over other sources of taxation. A tax on financial transactions would redress the balance. Why should there be a Value Added Tax but no tax on financial transactions?” See Soros, G. ‘George Soros: Open Societies, Sovereignty, and International Terrorism’, Hong Kong, September 19, 2001. Available at: http://asiasociety.org/business/development/george-soros-open- societies-sovereignty-and-international-terrorism 6  For further ideas, see Margot Salomon, “Global Economic Policy and Human Rights: Three Sites of Disconnection,” March 2010, Carnegie Council at http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/resources/ ethics_online/0043.html