Recent books by Thomas Piketty (Piketty, 2014) and Anthony Atkinson (Atkinson, 2015) have brought the annual wealth tax … back on the policy agenda. Both authors suggest using the annual wealth tax to supplement the redistributional effects of …, the wealth tax is often not delivering the expected effects - a large share of the tax burden falls on people with low …

underscore the difficulty of the effort to preserve progressive taxation and combat wealth inequality. I argue that the proposals … Theory to explain the entrenched and persistent nature of these narratives …

of income and wealth and interest into the taxation of wealth for redistributive purposes has largely increased. By … analysis of taxes on wealth and wealth transfers. Second, we evaluate redistributive effects of tax-benefit systems against the … joint income-wealth distribution instead of income only. We show that expressing living standards in terms of both income …

equilibrium framework with heterogeneous agents and a fiscal structure resembling the actual U.S. tax system. The wealth and … marginal tax rate decreases inequality in both wealth and income but also leads to a contraction of the aggregate economy. This …

equilibrium framework with heterogeneous agents and a fiscal structure resembling the actual US tax system. The wealth and income … tax rate decreases inequality in both wealth and income but also leads to a contraction of the aggregate economy. This is …

of the distribution. Whether one looks at the recent trends in income concentration, wealth concentration, social …