-cycle. Large persistent positive shocks early in life generate large wealth holdings for the top one percent of workers in an …

income. We argue that instead of using yearly income, one should measure wealth tax burdens with respect to individual … concept can be established. Under our preferred income concept, the wealth tax shows advantageous distributional effects - it …Recent books by Thomas Piketty (Piketty, 2014) and Anthony Atkinson (Atkinson, 2015) have brought the annual wealth tax …