A different sort of tax revolt. In late February, dozens of bank branches in the United Kingdom were taken over by groups of citizens angry about the government’s austerity measures.
In response to cutbacks to daycares and libraries, several banks were transformed into crèches as parents sat on the floor and read to their children. A laundry was set up in a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland in protest of cuts to laundry services for the elderly. Thirty-five Barclays Bank branches were occupied after it was revealed that the bank had paid only £113 million ($177 million Canadian) in taxes against a 2009 profit of £11.6 billion ($18.2 billion).
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