In this episode of Tax Notes Talk, professors David Gamage and Darien Shanske discuss their recent paper, “Money Moves: Taxing the Wealthy at the State Level,” which lays out their argument for a ...

With Chancellor Rachel Reeves under more pressure to balance the nation's books, a wealth tax has been floated as a viable option. Former Labour leader Lord Kinnock told Sky News that a wealth tax ...

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Taxes that make you pay a levy based on your assets – typically your net wealth – rather than your income from work. Such taxes used to be far more common globally than they are now. Sweden charged an ...

A dozen oecd countries had wealth taxes in 1990, but over time the approach has fallen out of favour. Austria abolished its ...

The clamour within Labour to introduce a wealth tax in a bid to balance the books is continuing to grow ahead of a make-or-break autumn budget. Keir Starmer and other senior cabinet ministers have ...

Cash-strapped Western states must invest in their militaries and green energy. With the top 1% increasing its grip on wealth, ...

The idea of a wealth tax has raised its head - yet again - as the government attempts to balance its books. Downing Street refused to rule out a wealth tax after former Labour leader Lord Kinnock told ...

I was once on a tour in Provence that included the house where Nostradamus used to live, which features several windows that have been bricked over. “That’s because the government used to tax you ...

A wealth tax used to be an idea restricted to the battier fringes of the far left. It might be championed by the people who sell Socialist Worker on the high street on Saturday mornings. But it has no ...

Here’s what’s been proposed—and why it never happens. Fresh off his shellacking of former New York governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for mayor, New York state assembly member Zohran ...