{"id":54453,"date":"2020-12-09T07:16:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T07:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=54453"},"modified":"2020-12-09T07:16:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T07:16:50","slug":"do-we-need-a-one-off-wealth-tax-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/12\/09\/do-we-need-a-one-off-wealth-tax-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Do we need a one off wealth tax now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A body that has called itself The Wealth Tax Commission has reported today and has said that if all people in the UK with net asset worth of more than \u00a3500,000 had to pay a wealth tax of 1% of their worth over that sum then \u00a3260bn could be raised in a one-off tax charge. I'm not very keen on tax increases right now. But this idea is useful nonetheless. In this video I explain why.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Wealth Tax Commission\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kbDW2itSAXM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A body that has called itself The Wealth Tax Commission has reported today and has said that if all people in the UK with net<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/12\/09\/do-we-need-a-one-off-wealth-tax-now\/\"><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":[35,106,184,33,97,150,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics","category-tacs-tax-and-wealth","category-tax-compliance","category-tax-justice","category-wealth-tax","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54453","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=54453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}