An international scheme to tax the wealth of the world’s 3,000 billionaires is technically feasible and could net up to $250bn (£197bn) a year in extra revenue, a new report says.

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Taxing super-rich debate should start with 2% levy, says economist behind plan

An annual 2% levy on fortunes exceeding $1 billion is the starting point for a global discussion on raising the burden on under-taxed billionaires, French economist Gabriel Zucman said.

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A global minimum tax on billionaires raising up to $250 billion (NZ$408b) a year is “technically feasible” and could be successfully enforced even if it was...

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Minimum tax on billionaires would raise up to $408b a year, says report

Annual valuation, calculated by French economist Gabriel Zucman, will support Brazilian proposal for a global tax on huge fortunes. Resources could be used for global challenges. Depending on the degree of ambition and political alignment of the 19 largest economies in the world, more the European Union (EU) and the African Union, creating a minimum global tax on the wealth of super-rich individuals could generate extraordinary revenues of up to…

Valor anual, calculado pelo economista francês Gabriel Zucman será usado para fundamentar proposta brasileira de um imposto global sobre grandes fortunas. Recursos poderiam ser usados para desafios globais A depender do grau de ambição e do alinhamento político das 19 maiores economias do mundo, mais a União Europeia (UE) e a União Africana, a criação de um imposto mínimo sobre a riqueza dos super-ricos poderia gerar receitas extraordinárias de …

Taxar super-ricos pode arrecadar até US$ 688 bi no mundo, diz estudo feito a pedido do Brasil para discussão no G20

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Taxing the super-rich could raise up to US$ 688 billion worldwide, says study commissioned by Brazil for discussion at the G20.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A global tax on the super-rich is proposed in a new report that Brazil commissioned for its current presidency of the leading 20 rich and […]

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Tax the super-rich, says a new report commissioned by Brazil for its G20 presidency

Renowned economist Gabriel Zucman released a blueprint Tuesday showing the world's governments that a global minimum tax on billionaires would be both technically feasible and economically beneficial, leaving political will as the only major obstacle preventing transformative changes to an international tax structure long exploited by the ultra-rich.

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Blueprint shows why only real barrier to global billionaire tax is 'political will'

The US has dismissed it. Germany is skeptical. And France is suddenly facing an uncertain future that could threaten its own efforts to champion the idea.

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Brazil Unveils Global Billionaire Tax Plan That Has Split G-20

RIO DE JANEIRO  — A global tax on the super-rich is proposed in a new report that Brazil commissioned for its current presidency of the leading 20 rich and developing nations.
Individuals with more than $1 billion in total assets would be required to pay the equivalent of 2% of their wealth in income tax, according to the proposal in the report by Gabriel Zucman, a French economist who teaches at the Paris School of Economics.
The report says gl…

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Tax super-rich, says report commissioned by Brazil for its G20 presidency

A global tax on the super-rich is proposed in a new report that Brazil commissioned for its current presidency of the leading 20 rich and developing nations.

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Hennepin County

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How to make the richest in the world pay more taxes? Something that may have seemed like science fiction years ago, now has a concrete proposal, embodied in a report commissioned by the Brazilian presidency of the G-20 to the French economist Gabriel Zucman, director of the Tax Observatory of the European Union, a disciple of the leader in inequality and income distribution Thomas Piketty, and one of the leading experts in international tax evas…

¿Cómo hacer que más ricos del mundo paguen más impuestos? Algo que hace años podía parecer ciencia ficción, cuenta ahora con una propuesta concreta, plasmada en un informe encargado por la presidencia brasileña del G-20 al economista francés Gabriel Zucman, director del Observatorio Fiscal de la Unión Europea, discípulo del referente en desigualdad y distribución de la renta Thomas Piketty, y uno de los mayores expertos en evasión y elusión fisc…

Cómo hacer que los superricos paguen hasta 250.000 millones más en impuestos

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How to make the super-rich pay up to 250 billion more in taxes

The failure of rich countries to tax the world's billionaires has made it necessary to introduce a global minimum tax rate on the world's richest.

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International scheme to tax billionaires’ wealth technically feasible, study finds

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