Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and for Citizens' Action

The Association pour la Taxation des Transactions financières et pour l'Action Citoyenne (Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions and Citizen's Action, ATTAC) is an activist organisation originally created to promote the establishment of a tax on foreign exchange transactions.

Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and for Citizens' Action
AbbreviationATTAC / attac
Founded3 June 1998 (1998-06-03)
TypeVoluntary association
Location
OriginsA single-issue movement that was founded in France after Ignacio Ramonet published an editorial in Le Monde diplomatique that read « Disarm the markets ». Supporters founded an association to promote the Tobin tax.
Area served
worldwide
MethodPopular education, meetings, conferences, counter-arguments documents
Members
90,000
Websitewww.attac.org
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