"A searing examination of a key driver of American inequality-our tax system. Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice is a forensic...

We study the history and geography of wealth accumulation in the US, using newly collected historical property tax records since the early 1800s. The US General Property Tax was a comprehensive tax on all types of property (real, personal, and financial), making it one of the first "wealth...

Several countries have recently abolished or significantly reduced their taxes on bequests. Bequest taxes, on the other hand, were among the first to be introduced when modern systems of taxation were developed at the end of the nineteenth century. We propose an explanation for these facts which...

Eine Vermögensteuer zur Finanzierung der Corona-Krise und zur Umverteilung zwischen Krisengewinnern und Krisenverlierern ist kein kluges und gerechtes Instrument. Zu diesem Schluss kommt eine neue Studie, verfasst für die Stiftung Familienunternehmen von Professor Clemens Fuest, ifo Institut,...