Oxfem: A European agenda to tax the super-rich: A solution to inequality in the European Union
2025-10-09
53 pages long
Languages: English
Overview: Europe faces a deep inequality crisis: the richest 1% in the EU own nearly a quarter of all wealth while half the population shares just 3%. Decades of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations resulted in the super-rich paying proportionally less taxes than ordinary citizens, eroding fairness, democracy, and social cohesion. The EU lacks harmonized policies to curb extreme wealth concentration and tax avoidance of the wealthiest. Oxfam calls for bold reforms, such as an EU-wide or national tax on the super-rich and transparency mechanisms like an EU assets registry, to fund social needs, climate action, and development. Taxing the super-rich is widely supported, is feasible and is urgent.
Keywords
Accountability
Democracy
European Union
Fiscal justice
Governance
Inequality
Progressive taxation
Tax avoidance
Tax the super-rich
wealth redistribution
Wealth tax
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