This paper explores the potential role for a wealth tax as part of the mix of taxes applying to assets in the Canadian … wealth nor a tax on wealth transferred through bequests. There are some glaring shortcomings of existing taxes on assets … introducing an inheritance tax rather than implementing an annual wealth tax …

The idea of a wealth tax has taken on new prominence since French economist Thomas Piketty famously proposed a global … wealth tax in 2013; Senator Elizabeth Warren has even made a national wealth tax a plank in her campaign to become the … Democratic presidential candidate in 2020. The current interest in wealth taxation is a response to the increase in wealth …