CTT Campaigns

April 25, 2008. - Eurodad just published a note that has some interesting news on tax havens and innovative financing mechanisms from recent World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings in Washington and the Spring ECOSOC and FfD hearings in New York. See two extracts below.

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• Published: 2008-04-25

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La bourse - quel bordel!

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• Published: 2007-12-22

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(Rome 30 March 2007) The Italian government has committed itself to consider again the approval of the Tobin Tax in accordance with the electoral program of the center-left coalition.

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• Published: 2007-04-03

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2007 has started at a pace, says David Hillman, the coordinator of the Stamp Out Poverty Campaign. The campaign is struggling to win progress from the Norwegian Government, pressing UK MPs to sign up to a sterling stamp duty and fending off attack from the Times newspaper.

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• Published: 2007-02-22

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A new paper on the CTT movement and its visions and prospects, was published by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) at the World Social Forum in Nairobi in late January 2007.

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• Published: 2007-02-13

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Silke Oetsch informs in brief via email about the outcoming of the panel of the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation on international taxes that took place in Santiago de Chile, 6 December 2006.

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• Published: 2006-12-18

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Discussing with Bruno Jetin - What is possible through a campaign for CTT? by Yoko Akimoto, ATTAC Japan

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• Published: 2006-11-09

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Based on the failures of aid policies of the past decades, organisations like UNCTAD and the World Development Movement today propose a direct, multilateral financing of development and refer to the possibility of raising global taxes. Francine Mestrum connects the dots.

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• Published: 2006-10-11

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A mailing list for the organisations, associations and movements participating in the World Public Finances initiative.

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• Published: 2006-08-04

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"The idea was firmly planted that it is now time for a pilot CTT", write David Hillman (Stamp out Poverty, UK) and Peter Wahl (WEED, Germany) in their report from the conference on development financing.

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• Published: 2006-07-28

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Disentangling the various competing initiatives for the establishment of a global Tobin Tax, Heikki Patomäki assesses the possibilities for the strengthening of the movement that backs its realization.

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• Published: 2006-07-13

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The former Austrian EU Commissioner Franz Fischler spoke out in favour of a Currency Transaction Tax. At a meeting of the Austrian Eco-Social Forum on June 20th 2006 he said: "Already a trifle tax of 0,01 percent would bring inside Europe 15 to 18 Billion Euro per year, which makes aproximately 13 to 16 percent of te EU budget 2006."

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• Published: 2006-06-21

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The ECCTN met in Cologne on 28 March to discuss how it can best position itself in this phase after the Paris Ministerial Conference on the airfare levy.

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• Published: 2006-04-06

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The official documents of the Ministerial conference on innovative mechanisms in Paris (28 February-1 March 2006): Chair's Summary ; Leading Group on Solidarity Levies to fund development ; UK/France communiqué on innovative financing mechanisms ; Liste des pays ayant l’intention de mettre en œuvre une contribution de solidarité sur les billets au 13 mars 2006.

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• Published: 2006-03-16

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Even though we can’t call it a breakthrough yet - the commitment of the other big industry nations is still too small – there is real progress, writes Peter Wahl in a first assessment of the recently held governmental conference on "Innovative Instruments for Financing Development" (Paris, 28th February/1st March 2006)

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• Published: 2006-03-03

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