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Leading Group Task Force Proposes a CTT-based Global Solidarity Fund
(September 2010) The experts of the Leading group on innovative financing for development, a body of 60 countries, are proposing a "Global Solidarity Levy". The levy would be a currency transactions tax and the revenue would be collected to a global solidarity fund. The solidarity fund would be established, optionally, in accordance with proposals made by Heikki Patomäki and Bruno Jetin.
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ITUC Calls for UN Summit to endorse Financial Transactions Tax to help fund development and growth
10 August 2010: The ITUC is calling on governments to commit to introducing a financial transactions tax (FTT) at September's United Nations Development Summit to help tackle global poverty and accelerate action on jobs and climate change.
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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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