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“The logic is unassailable; it’s very strong. The democratic demand and support for this type of policy is overwhelming. It’s just a matter of time.”

"The fact that billionaires today actually pay much less than the rest of the population. Often, thanks to tax optimization, they pay zero or almost no income tax."

This week, we focus on the Zucman tax. Named after French economist Gabriel Zucman, the proposal targets the ultra-wealthy and is the French left's answer to the country's public finance woes.

Based on the principles of the Zucman tax, this mechanism is intended to target taxpayers with assets exceeding €100 million whose total tax liability, including income tax, the generalized social contribution (CSG), the contribution to the repayment of the social debt (CRDS)...

Theo Palomo, a researcher at the EU Tax Observatory, presented a study conducted in partnership with the Federal Revenue Service that obtained two main conclusions: that, in Brazil, the richest 1% concentrates 27.4% of all national income and that we have a regressive tax system.

The work, although using data from 2019, confirms that, in Brazil, the richest 1% concentrate 27.4% of total income, and dollar millionaires in Brazil (that is, those who receive more than approximately R$5.5 million in annual income) have much lower effective tax rates than the rest of the...

“This makes Brazil one of the most unequal countries in the world,” says French economist Gabriel Zucman, who led the study.

Further supporting this concern, research from the EU Tax Observatory showed that jurisdictions with high-risk CBI programmes, such as Dominica, St. Lucia, Cyprus, Grenada, Malta and Vanautu, saw bank deposits in tax havens increase up to 55 percent after their CBI schemes were launched or expanded.

"The non-domestic population is not comparable with the population targeted by the Zucman tax, because they have far fewer family and cultural ties to their country, which means they are more likely to leave," Quentin Parrinello.

So far, the United States has shown clear reluctance toward tax multilateralism. The European Union should take a progressive view of international taxation and make it a priority.