Bottom line:
This isn't just a debate anymore — it's a global movement
Perhaps France will lead by example, perhaps another country will
But it seems increasingly clear that this is what the future looks like
/end
07.07.2025 17:12 — 👍 230 🔁 18 💬 6 📌 0
France could raise around €20 billion per year from this tax
That’s half of the €40B the government is looking for this year
Globally? $302–377 billion could be raised—every year
From the ultra-rich. Who currently pay very little.
gabriel-zucman.eu/files/report...
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In France, the National Assembly passed a 2% minimum tax on individuals with wealth over €100 million
The Senate blocked it—for now. But it’s coming back during budget talks
Why? Because the stakes are huge
07.07.2025 17:12 — 👍 121 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1
Brazil put the issue on G20 agenda last year
Now, countries are organizing
Last week, Brazil, Spain, South Africa, and Chile launched a coalition of the willing to advance this tax
07.07.2025 17:12 — 👍 119 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 1
A powerful tool to address this issue is a minimum tax expressed as a fraction of wealth
A minimum tax is effective because it tackles all forms of tax avoidance
And using wealth is powerful because wealth is harder to manipulate than income
Simple. Transparent. Effective
07.07.2025 17:12 — 👍 118 🔁 19 💬 4 📌 2
The starting point is that ultra-high-net-worth individuals don’t pay much tax, relative to their income
The Global Tax Evasion Report 2024 of the @taxobservatory.bsky.social summarized the problem well
07.07.2025 17:12 — 👍 97 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 0
July 4th, 2025
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Graph that shows bunching at the €2.57 million 2013 3rd tax bracket simplification threshold.
Many countries are considering introducing or reforming their wealth tax policies. This column studies the effects of a French wealth tax reform, which reduced reporting requirements, on taxpayer behaviour. The scaling back of reporting requirements had large negative effects on tax compliance, with 35% of wealth taxpayers missing in affected brackets and evading 10% of their total wealth tax payments each year. The findings indicate that taxpayers are more likely to under-report the value of less easily verifiable assets such as housing, whereas financial assets are more transparent and thus harder to manipulate.
Fewer reporting requirements had large negative effects on French wealth tax compliance, w/ 35% of wealth taxpayers missing in affected brackets & evading 10% of payments each year.
@bgarbinti.bsky.social @s-stantcheva.bsky.social @gabrielzucman.bsky.social et al.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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04.07.2025 08:36 — 👍 38 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 3
G7 Backs Plan for ‘Side-by-Side’ Tax System to Avoid U.S. Fight
Predictable—and yet shameful and pathetic—capitulation of the G7, who agrees to let US multinationals escape the global minimum tax of 15%
A clear illustration of why we need fundamentally new rules of the game
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/b...
27.06.2025 20:04 — 👍 129 🔁 63 💬 2 📌 3
A minimum tax on billionaires
Most people would agree that taxes, taken as a whole, should be progressive. When you add up all the taxes that an individual pays, the pe...
New post: A minimum tax on billionaires
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-mi...
The very rich pay a much lower percentage of their income in tax than almost everyone else. The 'Zucman tax' addresses this problem directly in a way designed to attract the maximum popular support.
25.06.2025 08:01 — 👍 77 🔁 44 💬 3 📌 5
Exporting the Oligarchy
Gabriel Zucman considers the domestic and global implications of the Trump administration's economic agenda.
Thanks @projectsyndicate.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute to your special edition magazine
My message: "It is not too late for other countries to step in and halt the globalization of plutocracy"
Free-access link
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www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/tru...
16.06.2025 18:56 — 👍 47 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 2
C’est aux partis politiques qui défendent la mesure – et dont dépend la survie politique du gouvernement – de faire pression sur l’exécutif
Et d’instaurer le rapport de force qui permettra l’adoption de cette mesure nécessaire, dès cette année
/fin
12.06.2025 16:46 — 👍 58 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
C’est maintenant au gouvernement de l’inscrire dans le projet de loi de finances pour 2026
Nous ne pouvons pas nous permettre à nouveau de perdre 5 ans, comme en 1909
Dans la situation budgétaire, politique et géopolitique actuelle, ce serait une terrible erreur
12.06.2025 16:46 — 👍 54 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Mais cette révolution reste inachevée
L’impôt sur le revenu échoue encore à faire contribuer les ultra-riches
Echec que l’impôt plancher propose de surmonter, sereinement et efficacement
12.06.2025 16:46 — 👍 31 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
L’histoire n’a pas été tendre avec ces Cassandre
Tout le monde le reconnaît aujourd’hui : l’impôt sur le revenu fut un progrès économique considérable
Le pilier du développement de notre état social et des gains de productivité gigantesques permis par ce dernier
12.06.2025 16:46 — 👍 38 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Un siècle plus tard, le Sénat semble à nouveau déterminé à nous faire perdre un temps précieux
Les arguments des conservateurs d’aujourd’hui sont les mêmes que ceux des conservateurs d’hier:
“Confiscatoire”, “Impraticable”, “Dangereux pour l’économie”…
12.06.2025 16:46 — 👍 44 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Car ce rejet n’est qu’un combat d’arrière-garde
En 1909, la Chambre des députés votait la création de l’impôt progressif sur le revenu
Avancée économique fondamentale que le Sénat, à majorité conservatrice, allait bloquer pendant 5 ans
Mais qu’il finit par adopter, en 1914
12.06.2025 16:46 — 👍 41 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
L’impôt plancher sur le patrimoine a été adopté par l’Assemblée nationale
Il est plébiscité par les Français
Sa logique économique est limpide
Le Sénat, en première lecture, le rejette aujourd’hui
Que fait on maintenant ?
On continue ! 🧵
12.06.2025 16:46 — 👍 333 🔁 161 💬 9 📌 9
Rendez-vous dimanche à #WeLoveGreen !
06.06.2025 10:26 — 👍 30 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
ah these countries where the head of state and oligarchs spend their time self-dealing or fighting for contracts, laws, and everything always revolves around this ...
couldn't happen here, fortunately
05.06.2025 21:45 — 👍 52 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
Imagine if Latin American countries acted as one and said: "Our billionaires must pay their fair share"
That's how global change starts
So great to take part in the event hosted by
@icrict.bsky.social Rumbo Colective & Oxfam at the Chilean Congress Library today—thanks for having me!
04.06.2025 19:39 — 👍 52 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 1
⚖️ Tax justice is key to reduce inequality. Don't miss @gabrielzucman.bsky.social & @jayatighosh.bsky.social today in Chile & India:
1) "Gobernanza tributaria y justicia fiscal" organized by Rumbo Colectivo & Oxfam
🎥Online: lnkd.in/dEZcwzma
2) "Trump pulls the plug"
🎥 Webinar: lnkd.in/g4SWk2Vr
04.06.2025 09:28 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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