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- Who is brave enough to back Brazil's global tax on billionaires? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/31/brazil-global-tax-billionaires-super-rich 3 comments
- Billionaires call on global leaders to tax them more https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-18/billionaires-call-on-global-leaders-to-tax-them-more/103363600 99 comments economics
- Global billionaire tax could yield $250 billion annually, study says https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/global-billionaire-tax-could-yield-250-bln-study-2023-10-22/ 64 comments economy
- Top economist pitches global billionaire tax to G20 finance leaders https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/top-economist-pitches-global-billionaire-tax-to-g20-finance-leaders/ 2 comments tax
- 'We Need to Tax the Rich': Global Billionaires Have Grown $4 Trillion Wealthier During Pandemic https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/01/we-need-tax-rich-global-billionaires-have-grown-4-trillion-wealthier-during-pandemic 442 comments politics
- Global Tax on Billionaires Could Raise $250 Billion, New Report Says https://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2023/10/24/2023102400509.html 34 comments worldnews
- Ministers of Germany, Brazil, South Africa and Spain: why we need a global tax on billionaires https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2024/apr/25/ministers-of-germany-brazil-south-africa-and-spain-why-we-need-a-global-tax-on-billionaires 5 comments europe
- Ministers of Germany, Brazil, South Africa and Spain: why we need a global tax on billionaires https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2024/apr/25/ministers-of-germany-brazil-south-africa-and-spain-why-we-need-a-global-tax-on-billionaires 27 comments germany
- Global billionaire tax for fighting climate change and hunger rises up political agenda https://www.climatechangenews.com/2024/04/19/global-billionaires-tax-to-fight-climate-change-and-hunger-rises-up-political-agenda/ 10 comments climate
- ‘A historic step’: G20 discuss plans for global minimum tax on billionaires https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/feb/29/taxation-worlds-billionaires-super-rich-g20-brazil 232 comments worldnews
- Who is brave enough to back Brazil’s global tax on billionaires? The answer will define our future | George Monbiot https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/31/brazil-global-tax-billionaires-super-rich#comment-168795863 10 comments politics
- Nick Kristof: "Do we really want to close down the American government and risk another global financial crisis to protect the tax bills of billionaires?" http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/opinion/07kristof.html 101 comments politics
- What would happen if 3,000 'billionaires' paid 2% for their performance? Brazil refines its global tax proposal: Lula says that with this tax it will be possible to eradicate the deepest food insecurity in Africa [portuguese] https://www.ihu.unisinos.br/639778-e-se-3-mil-bilionarios-pagassem-2-sobre-o-seu-desempenho-brasil-refina-sua-proposta-de-imposto-global 127 comments economics
- Not all millionaires are self-centered. "Millionaires for Humanity" is a global network of millionaires advocating for wealth taxes. Their members are millionaires and billionaires who all recognize the need to go beyond philanthropy: charity alone is not enough, no matter how generous and smart. https://millionairesforhumanity.org/the-millionaires/ 16 comments upliftingnews
- G20 Ministers Get Behind a Global Wealth Tax on Billionaires | A 2 percent levy, they say, could raise $313 billion a year to ease poverty and climate disparities. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/g20-ministers-global-wealth-tax-billionaires-gabriel-zucman/ 12 comments politics
- 'Grave Mistake': Yellen Under Fire for Opposing Global Billionaires Tax | "To reject the very idea of a global minimum tax on billionaires is to cede control of our economies and our democracies to oligarchs and plutocrats," warned one progressive critic over the U.S. Treasury Secretary's position. https://www.commondreams.org/news/yellen-global-billionaires-tax 54 comments politics
- Billionaires pay almost no tax. A global levy of just 2% could raise $250 billion. Currently billionaires effectively pay far less personal tax than other taxpayers of more modest means. Growing wealth inequality is fueling calls for the richest citizens to bear more of the tax burden. https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/23/business/billionaires-global-tax/index.html 7 comments economy