A Tobin tax? The outré is back in
One after another, they are accepting the CTT. Perhaps even the politicians of the USA will one day embrace Tobin's Tax? But what to do with all the revenue it would generate?
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Conference Call for Civil Society Groups on Financial Transactions Taxes
U.S. activists are eager to brainstorm with civil society groups in other countries who are working in support of financial transactions taxes that would be used to raise substantial new money to address global and domestic development priorities and to curb the harmful behaviors of the financial industry.
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IMF to look into FTT
IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn now says, that the IMF will look into the issue of a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT).
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Request to IMF for civil society participation
A request for civil society participation in IMF study on how the financial sector can help pay for the bailouts, signed by numerous organisations.
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Gordon Brown speaks of Financial Transaction Levy at G20 finance ministers meeting
Saturday, November 7 / via David Hillman (ENOFAD) -- Speaking at the meeting of the finance ministers of the G20 countries, Prime Minister Gordon Brown today stated that "we need a better economic and social contract to reflect the global responsibilities of financial institutions to society". Among the proposals towards such a contract he mentioned "global financial transactions levy". Extracts from Gordon Brown's speech follow:
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