{"id":16551,"date":"2012-07-25T08:11:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T07:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=16551"},"modified":"2012-07-20T13:17:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T12:17:33","slug":"forget-the-top-1-its-actually-the-top-0-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/07\/25\/forget-the-top-1-its-actually-the-top-0-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget the top 1%. It&#8217;s actually the top 0.14%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This comes from Jim Henry's new work for the <a href=\"http:\/\/taxjustice.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tax Justice Network<\/a> on global wealth and inequality:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/assets.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16552\" title=\"assets\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/assets.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/assets.png 865w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/assets-300x154.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It's the top 0.14% who make up the global elite. And almost half their\u00a0wealth\u00a0is offshore.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone else has an average wealth of $1,600 each, and you can bet that even that is heavily\u00a0skewed.<\/p>\n<p>Inequality mnatters.<\/p>\n<p>And tax can address the issue. Which is why this work was done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This comes from Jim Henry&#8217;s new work for the Tax Justice Network on global wealth and inequality: It&#8217;s the top 0.14% who make up the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/07\/25\/forget-the-top-1-its-actually-the-top-0-14\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,32,97,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-tax-havens","category-tax-justice","category-tax-justice-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}