Wealth taxes are present in most European countries, but they still form a relatively small share of tax revenues. Indeed, politicians keep referring to wealth as a fat tax base…
wealth tax
Wealth taxes have played a minor role in the tax systems of the OECD bloc: they have declined from about 7.9% of total tax revenues in the mid-1960s to about…
Do people really dislike wealth taxes more than other types of taxes? Evidence from a survey-experiment representative of the Italian population
WP 2023-02. Executive Summary We designed a Survey Experiment (SE) to study the attitudes of the Italians towards wealth, income and consumptions taxes. In particular, we interviewed a sample of…
France’s government presents a project to introduce several modifications in the fiscal law; a project to be validated by the National Assembly before the symbolic date of July 14.
Less than one month after the final vote of the 2011 Tax Law, members of the French government are revealing that there are projects for several important fiscal reforms in the following months.
“An Economic Rationale for the Net Wealth Tax – Does It Exist?”- Jan Schnellenbach
“Taxonomy of Wealth Taxes” – Philipp Bagus
“Because that’s where the money is!” – Daniel Pellerin

