Rejected petition Introduce Covid-19 tax on the financial sector.Banks should bail out the people.

Review how the financial sector can help with Covid-19 outbreak. These measures should be appropriate and reflect the temporary nature. This could be a voluntary one-off payments for an amount to be specified by government or an emergency tax. Must not be passed to consumers for at least 5 years.

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For the same reasons we bailed out the banks in 2008.

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Date submitted 22 March 2020
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