CTT Campaigns

"We are keen to involve all movements and civil society organisations whose work concerns the dictatorship of finances and that are interested in finding anti-systemic alternatives", write Matti Kohonen (Tax Justice Network/NIGD) and Antonio Martins (Liberdade Brasil) in their letter of invitation.

• Posted by ctt-team
• Published: 2005-12-06

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Using a global tax base as a concept to understand where we want to move towards helps the design of global taxation initiatives. It allows us to consider, possibly for the first time since the advent of the labour movement the globe as one single polis. Matti Kohonen discusses the approaches of the Stamp Out Poverty Campaign, the Landau Report on global taxes, and the Draft Treaty on Currency Transactions Tax.

• Posted by ctt-team
• Published: 2005-10-01

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Please mark this date in your diaries - Saturday 19 November - Stamp Out Poverty's one-day conference entitled: 'Progress and Action', writes David Hillman in a message to "tobin-europe".

• Posted by ctt-team
• Published: 2005-10-01

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Brazil, Spain, France, Chile, Germany and Algeria ask for support from the governments participating in the United Nations General Assembly for a "solidarity contribution" levied on tax air tickets, and for other innovative financial mechanisms.

• Posted by ctt-team
• Published: 2005-08-24

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The "Draft Treaty on Currency Transactions Tax" will be discussed and re-published with translations in Helsinki 6 September 2005.

• Posted by ctt-team
• Published: 2005-08-19

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"International Taxation - Regulating Globalisation, Financing Development", a publication from Berlin-based WEED (World Economy, Ecology and Develeopment) has just been released in English.

• Posted by ctt-team
• Published: 2005-06-08

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In this article, Sony Kapoor compares the pros and cons of aviation fuel tax (not to be confused with the tax on air tickets) with those of the CTT. He argues that the CTT is better suited than the AT as a means to raise funds for the Millennium Development Goals.

• Posted by mikael
• Published: 2005-05-28

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- last minute reflections before the French Revolution, by Mikael Böök

• Posted by mikael
• Published: 2005-05-28

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During their meeting 14 May, the EU finance ministers did not consider a CTT. They did, however, decide to introduce a voluntary EU-wide tax on air tickets. CTT campaigners now discuss the significance and/or non-significance of this decision.

• Posted by mikael
• Published: 2005-05-24

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The Socialist Left in Norway has requested that the Government prepares a study on global taxes. The main argument is that supplementary income to the UN needs to be secured.

• Posted by Attac Norge
• Published: 2005-05-08

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The Swedish government and leading Social Democrats are sending contradictory messages on CTT and global taxation

• Posted by mikael
• Published: 2005-05-04

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In January 2005, more than a hundred NGOs launched a global call for action against poverty. It happened in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and President Lula was present. After the event, he left for the World Economic Forum in Davos where he repeated the call with as much success as in Porto Alegre. What does it mean?

• Posted by mikael
• Published: 2005-05-04

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Heikki Patomäki reports from a hearing in Rome, Italy, last Thursday 21 April. The hearing "concerning a fact-finding investigation on forex transaction taxes" was arranged by the Committees on Foreign Affairs and on Finance of the Italian Parliament.

• Posted by Attac Finland
• Published: 2005-04-26

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The Landau Report, a study on global taxation commissioned by president Chirac, is of special interest to CTT Campaigns because it supports the implementation of a CTT.

• Posted by mikael
• Published: 2005-04-15

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Isn’t it self-evident? We can introduce a global tax in order to pay for today’s major priority of development cooperation. With the money levied on monetary speculation, the Tobin tax or the currency transaction tax, we can help to fight poverty. Unfortunately, this is not a good idea. Because the MDG’s (Millennium Development Goals) are not ambitious and can be financed by making use of other means. And because the Tobin Tax is meant to regulate financial markets. In this article, I briefly want to explain these two points.

• Posted by mikael
• Published: 2005-04-03

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