In the Italian Chamber of Deputies, a few MPS have introduced proposals for laws establishing a currency transaction tax (CTT) and Heikki Patomäki was one of the experts invited to a hearing in the Italian Parliament "concerning a fact-finding investigation on forex transaction taxes" which was arranged by the Committees on Foreign Affairs and on Finance of the Italian Parliament. Read more in his report.

In this report on the cttcampaigns.info site also a direct link to the Menu of Choice for Good Reasons for the CTT - power point presentation used by Patomäki in Italy, which presents an informative briefing on the reasons for a CTT.

Relaunching the Draft Treaty
NIGD is planning a relaunch of the CTT Draft Treaty (see nigd/ctt) in September in Finland. In the following months the Draft Treaty is being translated into Finnish, Swedish and Portuguese, whereas the Draft Treaty already exists in English and Japanese.

Global CTT Campaign
Our Global CTT Campaign continues - See cttcampaigns.info for further CTT news. Currently there are approximately 20 registered site members who have an own username and password to add CTT news to the site. Do join! the Global CTT Campaign at cttcampaigns.info and send your news on CTT developments to team@cttcampaigns.info

Yoko Akimoto, ATTAC Japan, has joined members Mikael Böök, Katarina Sehm Patomäki and Ruby van der Wekken in the cttcampaigns.info team which functions as an editorial board of the site. We are looking for further team members from Brasil, Africa and India.

Amongst our future plans also belong the establishment of an International Cooperative Society of cttcampaigns.info in which each member will own its own share of the cooperative.