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Some economists have called for a radical ‘global wealth tax’ on billionaires. How would that work?

By Venkat Narayanan, Senior Lecturer - Accounting and Tax, RMIT University

A wealth tax on billionaires would require global cooperation and get us into the tricky territory of taxing unrealised gains. But we already do that in some circumstances.

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