Wealth tax
Britain tries to fix its frayed relations with world’s rich
TECH billionaires, the owners of Premier League football teams and heirs to some of Europe’s oldest fortunes all recently left the UK because of higher taxes. Now, Britain’s finance minister is quietl...
World has tools to unlock US$1.3 trillion in climate finance: COP30 report
The upcoming gathering aims to turn vague targets into concrete proposals
‘Inequality crisis’ threatens democracy, experts warn G20
WEALTH inequality is a global emergency that threatens democracy and social cohesion, experts warned on Tuesday, urging G20 leaders meeting in South Africa this month to establish a panel to tackle th...
The problem with taxing the rich
Fiscal systems designed around income and consumption struggle to capture wealth, and billionaires are highly mobile
UK wealth tax would spur millionaire exits to US: survey
The US tops the rankings among wealthy Britons for potential relocation, followed by Canada, Australia and the United Arab Emirates
Mega-rich baby boomers quit UK in wealth exodus over tax
Inheritance tax is the dealbreaker that is driving people away
France wants to make one-off wealth tax permanent
[PARIS] France’s economy minister said on Sunday (Apr 13) that he wants to make a temporary tax on the wealthy into a permanent levy to make government financing “more equitable”.
UN begins talks toward ‘fair’ tax accord
UNITED Nations member states launched formal negotiations on Monday on an international tax accord, aiming to create a “fair” system that addresses evasion by the super-wealthy and multinational busin...
Property tax should not be conflated with wealth tax
I READ with great interest Leslie Yee’s commentary “Don’t spare asset-rich, cash-poor private homeowners from paying higher property taxes” (BT, Jan 13), but I must respectfully disagree with his opin...
Post-election tax cliff spurs US rich to prep huge wealth transfer
Wealthy Americans worried about who will win the White House are preparing to accelerate a huge transfer of wealth to their heirs by using large estate-tax breaks set to expire at the end of next year...
