household-level wealth distribution in five selected EU member countries (Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, and Italy) to … derive inheritances based on different demographic and wealth projection scenarios. On this basis, various inheritance tax … that multiple factors coincide in favouring a growing revenue potential for inheritance taxation in the medium-term. Wealth …

This essay summarizes five key findings from the author's in-progress research evaluating the potential of wealth tax … plausibly succeed in making it so that the U.S. tax system would meaningfully tax the super rich: wealth taxation and mark … for as “progressive alternatives” to wealth tax reforms should be thought of as complements to wealth taxation rather than …

Wealth taxes have been adopted or considered as an adjunct to existing tax systems such as income taxes, property taxes …, and consumption taxes. Discussions about a wealth tax are usually a mixture of political, social, and economic issues … issues behind and to focus on the effects of a wealth tax on capital markets …

The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining … net wealth that is currently on the German political agenda. We use survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP …) and estimate the net wealth distribution at the very top, based on publicly available information about very rich Germans …

In the throes of economic crisis, the Spanish government decided to reintroduce the Wealth Tax, appealing to … tax by drawing on the universe of wealth tax returns submitted to the Catalan Tax Agency between 2011 and 2015. Thus, we … exploit the variation in treatment exposure to analyse taxpayers' responses, in terms not only of wealth accumulation, but …

The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining … net wealth that is currently on the German political agenda. We use survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP …) and estimate the net wealth distribution at the very top, based on publicly available information about very rich Germans …

This paper aims to contribute to the literature on the impact of net wealth taxes on social fairness. The model … introduction of a net wealth tax tends to improve social inequality. Factors affecting this result are the initial distribution of … income, the level of progressivity of both net wealth tax and personal income tax, and the way in which public spending is …

The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining … net wealth that is currently on the German political agenda. We use survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP …) and estimate the net wealth distribution at the very top, based on publicly available information about very rich Germans …

The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining … net wealth that is currently on the German political agenda. We use survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP …) and estimate the net wealth distribution at the very top, based on publicly available information about very rich Germans …