CTT Campaigns

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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• Published: 2010-08-12

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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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• Published: 2010-02-08

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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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• Published: 2010-01-05

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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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• Published: 2009-12-01

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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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• Published: 2009-11-12

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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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• Published: 2009-11-07

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"I think it would be right if Germany would advocate vigorously a levy on international financial transactions", president Horst Köhler said in his address to the new German government on 28 October, 2009.

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• Published: 2009-10-29

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Paper by prof. Heikki Patomäki, originally written as a basis for his talks in Kyoto and Tokyo in January 2009, but it has been up-dated and rewritten and includes also an analysis of the International Financial Transaction Tax proposal. This paper is forthcoming in the Ritsumeikan Annual Review of International Studies; and a different version later in a European journal.

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• Published: 2009-10-23

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Au jourd'hui le 22 octobre 2009 le ministre des Affaires étrangères Bernard Kouchner convoque , à Paris, la première réunion de la "Task Force sur les transactions financières internationales et le développement". Elle réunit une douzaine de pays prêts à travailler sur la mise en place d'une taxe sur les transactions financières afin de contribuer au financement de l'aide publique au développement des pays pauvres. A lire: le communiqué et déclaration d'Attac.

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• Published: 2009-10-22

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On Thursday, 8 October 2009, the European Parliament adopted a position in favour of a tax on international financial transactions. Sven Giegold's comments.

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• Published: 2009-10-10

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The French Foreign and Finance minister now agree on the principle of a financial transactionstax. Sarkozy now also supports it. The launch of a taskforce on FTTs for development will take place on October 22nd in Paris at ministerial level.

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• Published: 2009-10-05

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The G-20 is not a system of international economic co-operation, or a board of directors, or a governing council for the global economy, to pick some of the terms that have appeared in the media. It is a forum where the heads of state of 20 economies discuss some of the important economic issues. It has very little ability to directly implement decisions, writes Mark Weisbrot in his comment on the apparent shift of power from the G7 to the G20.

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• Published: 2009-10-05

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Last week the coalition Americans for Financial Reform discussed the Financial Transactions Tax (FTT). Sarah Anderson from Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC, comments on the issue.

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• Published: 2009-09-28

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European Civil Society Organisations agree on joint campaign for a Democratic restructuring of Finance. "We face an extraordinary window of opportunity to make the Financial Transaction Tax a reality, by showing that the tax is feasible and by organising sufficient public pressure from below", writes Alexandra Strickner/Attac Austria.

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• Published: 2009-09-28

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France and Germany succeeded to get the proposal of a financial transaction tax de facto into the Pittsburgh Declaration of the G20. This creates an extraordinary opportunity for civil society to make the FTT one of her prominent points to organize pressure from below in the time to come and to make the FTT not the solution for everything but a spearhead of campaigning, Peter Wahl writes.

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• Published: 2009-09-26

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