Q&A: Bank levy explained
By Laurence Knight
Business reporter, BBC News
- Published

The chancellor wants banks to pay their "fair share"
The government says it will increase the levy on banks from 0.078% to 0.088% from 1 January.
So what is the levy? What's really at stake? And why raise the rate now?
Before the financial crisis, bank runs were considered a thing of the past
- 8 February 2011
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