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Gabriel Zucman presents his modest proposal for taxing the world's ...


1 – The increasing concentration of wealth and economic power as ...

Comprehensive wealth taxes should be carefully considered; Thomas Piketty, for example, has suggested a progressive annual tax on individual net worth for the ...

The taxation of wealth for the eradication of poverty and inequality

The EU Tax Observatory (2023) estimates that wealth tax on the richest 3000 globally could raise about $250 billion. While the proposal is a ...

How to Fix Economic Inequality?

... Gabriel Zucman (University of California Berkeley). Incomes are only a very ... Their wealth tax plans sought to tax the net wealth, the assets held ...

Discussion of “Sources of U.S. Wealth Inequality - Owen Zidar

Saez, Emmanuel, and Gabriel Zucman. 2019. The triumph of ... “A modest tax reform proposal to roll back federal tax policy to 1997.

How Ron Wyden's tax plan would hit and change philanthropy - Vox

A couple weeks ago, I walked through a wealth tax proposal from Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman that would totally upend ...

Tax scheme to tax billionaires possible - Taipei Times

Describing his plan as a top-up to income tax so that billionaires paid an annual tax bill worth at least 2 percent of their wealth, Zucman said ...

The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens - can be

The Hidden Wealth of Nations by Gabriel Zucman is probably s the best book that has ever been written on tax havens and what we can do about them. It is ...

Gabriel Zucman on Inequality, Growth, and Distributional National ...

Zucman finds that there has been no change in income for the bottom half of the income distribution over this time period with large gains going ...

Comment on “Progressive Wealth Taxation” by Saez and Zucman ...

Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman offer a discussion of rationale for, implementation and implications of introducing wealth taxation in the United States.

Billionaires pay almost no tax. A global levy of just 2% could raise ...

Governments should open a new front in the international clampdown on tax evasion with a global minimum tax on billionaires, ...

Chapter 2. Coordinating Taxation Across Borders. IMF Fiscal ...

Low-tax countries are likely to raise their taxes to the minimum—possibly ... Zucman, Gabriel. 2013. “The Missing Wealth of Nations: Are Europe and the ...

Weak Corporate Tax Reform Critiques Suggest Serious Debate Isn't ...

Multinational profit shifting to avoid taxes is a huge problem, yet the worldwide combined reporting critics say that because there are ...

Substantial Income of Wealthy Households Escapes Annual ...

... tax on households worth more than $1 billion. Economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman estimate that the proposal would affect fewer than ...

Democrats Want to Tax the Rich. Here's How Those Plans Would ...

Four ideas have gained the most traction: a tax on wealth, raising marginal tax rates, expanding the estate tax and changing how the government taxes capital ...

Next stop: a global tax on the super-rich? | Economy and Business

Zucman and his team's proposal is to implement a global minimum tax of 2% only for billionaires. This would be calculated according to their ...

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Failed To Deliver Promised Benefits

During debate over the tax bill, Trump administration economic officials claimed that “the average household would, conservatively, realize an ...

More Thoughts on a Wealth Tax and Alternatives

... Gabriel Zucman, with a number of responses, including one from me ... While Saez and Zucman have a 47 percent exit tax as part of their proposal ...

Projected impacts of federal tax policy proposals on mortality burden ...

I aimed to project the impacts on mortality of modifying federal income tax structures based on proposals by two recent United States (US) Presidential ...

Taxation and Migration: Evidence and Policy Implications

Although its top marginal tax rate on earn- ings is relatively high, the fact that capital gains are exempt from taxation and inter vivos gifts are taxed at ...

Taxing Wealth in an Uncertain World - Chicago Unbound

It would thus be a fallacy to conclude that a retrospective capital gains tax is preferable to its alternatives simply because it has the lowest.