Libertarian anarchists used to say “taxation is theft.” New research by economist Gabriel Zucman suggests that there is some truth to this—when tax havens are taken into consideration. In his new book ...

In their new book, economists Gabrial Zucman and Emmanuel Saez say the optimal effective tax rate for the rich in combined taxes — including federal, state, payroll and local — would be 75%. Zucman ...

California voters will decide on a one-time 5 per cent tax on 200 billionaires in November, boosting calls for a nationwide billionaire wealth tax in the US.

In 2012 the famous French actor Gérard Depardieu moved his home across the border to Belgium to avoid paying a hefty surtax on incomes over 1 million euros. The ease with which Depardieu avoided taxes ...

Gabriel Zucman, an economics professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, the Paris School of Economics and the University of California, Berkeley, addressed newly appointed Prime Minister ...

PARIS — Popular French economist Gabriel Zucman says French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu made a fatal mistake by not embracing his eponymous "Zucman tax." Zucman told POLITICO in an interview that ...

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Since the global financial crisis of 2007-09 the world has worried more about inequalities of wealth and income. That is in large part a result of work done by a band of French economists, in ...