{"id":93779,"date":"2026-07-11T07:37:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T06:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=93779"},"modified":"2026-07-11T12:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T11:38:42","slug":"why-not-a-wealth-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/11\/why-not-a-wealth-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Why not a wealth tax?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Iir0GP40_vw&amp;t=2s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This was recorded<\/a> at Scotland\u2019s Economic Festival in March, and nothing has changed since then. Thanks to William Thomson for clipping this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-93791\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-11-at-12.36.26-550x305.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-11-at-12.36.26-550x305.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-11-at-12.36.26-540x300.png 540w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-11-at-12.36.26-768x426.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-11-at-12.36.26-600x333.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-11-at-12.36.26.png 1466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Iir0GP40_vw&amp;t=2s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The video can be found here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was recorded at Scotland\u2019s Economic Festival in March, and nothing has changed since then. Thanks to William Thomson for clipping this. The video can<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/11\/why-not-a-wealth-tax\/\"><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":[204,35,16,147,224,106,97,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-ethics","category-inequality","category-neoliberalism","category-politics","category-tax-justice","category-wealth-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93779","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=93779"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93793,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93779\/revisions\/93793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}