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 Citizens' Action, ATTAC) is an activist organisation originally created to promote the establishment of a tax on foreign exchange transactions. == Background == Originally called "Action for a Tobin Tax to Assist the Citizen", ATTAC was a single-issue movement demanding the introduction of the so-called Tobin tax on currency speculation.