I was discussing wealth taxation with some of my students yesterday: it is an issue on which they want to work. By chance I was
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The NHS needs to be funded with wealth taxes, not national insurance
A Tory MP has suggested the solution to the NHS crisis is to increase National Insurance. It is staggering how wrong such a person can
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How to tax wealth in the UK without even starting on inheritance tax reform
There has been a marked absence of willing to tax wealth in the UK. I have always felt this a serious error of judgement and
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Why we can, and why we should now have a wealth tax
This is a summary of my slides on wealth tax for a presentation at the World Bank this morning but they may not represent all
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It’s time for a serious, widescale wealth tax
The Telegraph has an artcle this morning on a new paper for the IMF from Harvard professors Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. Now these two have
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Who inherits in the UK?
The Office for National Statistics published a survey on inheritance in the UK for the years 2008 to 2010 yesterday. It’s a telling report. As they
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The case for wealth taxation in one graph
This graph is from the IMF Fiscal Monitor on tax issued last week: Now tell me there is no case for taxing wealth. And, yes,
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We need to tax wealth, and not just with land value taxation
The Guardian has reported this morning ion booming property prices in South East England and London, noting: Over the past year, a typical property in
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There is a time for wealth taxes. This is it
My friend and co-author Howard Reed has a thoughtful piece on the Open Democracy site on wealth taxes. In it he argues: Private households in
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