Wealth taxes are a hot topic in policy debates from Europe to the U.S., and Norway offers one of the most instructive examples. The Nordic nation has been taxing personal fortunes since 1892, and ...

Wealth managers with billionaire clients better get ready. Vice President Kamala Harris’s recently unveiled comprehensive tax proposal could be keeping them busy should she win in November. As ...

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 ...

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Tackling income and wealth inequality is at the top of the policy agenda in many countries. This note discusses three approaches of wealth taxation, based on (1) returns with a capital income tax, (2) ...

Follow-up: Nick Hanauer, critic of income inequality, calls proposed Washington wealth tax ‘impractical’ Do taxes that target wealthy residents drive away entrepreneurs and businesses? That’s the ...

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 ...

PARIS, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Lawmakers in France's lower house rejected on Friday multiple proposals for a wealth tax on ultra-rich as promoted by French economist Gabriel Zucman, who had called for a 2% ...

During the Supreme Court’s flurry of end-of-term activity, another seismically consequential decision largely escaped notice. Its ruling in Moore et ux. v. United States, which upheld a tax on ...

The government is in a tricky spot heading into the autumn. Last year’s Budget was supposed to be a once-in-a-parliament reset, with £40 billion of tax hikes announced in an attempt to balance the ...

Generational wealth — the various financial assets that are passed down through families to children, grandchildren and beyond — can come with pretty hefty tax burdens for heirs. Estate planning is ...