The college aid wealth tax is imposed at rates between 5% and 25% a year.
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The Greek Government is introducing a wealth tax to try and pay down the national debt.
One survey by BVA, a pollster, suggests that 64% are against getting rid of the wealth tax.
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Congress might be tempted to propose something that has surfaced all too often in Europe: a wealth tax.
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The best argument against a one-time wealth tax in normal times is that it is antithetical to freedom.
The inheritance tax was eliminated in 2005, the wealth tax in 2007 and taxes on residential property in 2008.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has demonstrated some warmth towards the wealth tax idea.
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If that were true, Obama might fervently believe the nonsense he occasionally spouts about global warming and share-the-wealth tax policy.
And it has reversed nearly all the tax cuts, including to the annual wealth tax, that Mr Sarkozy brought in.
One advantage of a wealth tax is that it would get Warren Buffett to stop complaining about not paying enough taxes.
He will also boost taxes on financial income, scrap exemptions from the annual wealth tax, end stock options and cap bonuses.
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He was asked about a proposal by activist Desmond Tutu for whites to pay a wealth tax, given their heritage of privilege.
VAT, higher inheritance taxes or a reintroduced wealth tax, this has not diminished the wrath of business leaders or of the opposition.
None of the three understands the wealth tax embedded in sales taxation.
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Felix goes a step further, suggesting a wealth tax on the super-rich.
Two of the provisions that I found rather intriguing were a wealth tax and land value taxation (also known as community ground rent).
Mr Clegg is promising to ensure that the next government spending review will not include further spending cuts without a measure of wealth tax.
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This is why many tax policy analysts have said that a wealth tax could result in a recession by inhibiting capital formation and job creation.
The Obama wealth tax will smother and stifle this mysterious force.
France is not the only European country with a wealth tax Spain, Finland, Luxembourg and Sweden have them too but it is alone in having raised it.
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However the wealth tax on owners of marginally profitable businesses (or businesses whose profit is mostly earned outside of the U.S.) would pay more tax.
They will include a vast array of tax rises on the annual wealth tax, companies, oil firms, financial transactions and inheritance focused on the rich and on business.
But the Conservatives oppose introducing a wealth tax, saying it would be unfair to impose it after a home or other large asset had been purchased.
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Nick Clegg has insisted the coalition will not make future spending cuts "on the backs of the poor" and urged the Conservatives to back a "wealth tax".
BBC: Lib Dem conference: Clegg promises to push for wealth tax
One scheme is to reactivate the wealth tax that has been lying dormant (but not repealed) since the Constitutional Court objected to it a few years ago.
Mr Osborne ruled out Lib Dem proposals for a levy on high value properties, the so-called mansion tax, or a new wealth tax, saying they would harm enterprise.
The introduction of a wealth tax would have shown seriousness of purpose (though it would also have allowed the state to dig its hands into Mr Berlusconi's pockets).
Options under consultation also include a French-style wealth tax on personal assets, such as jewellery and paintings, according to the Mail on Sunday and the Sunday Times.
Some way of combining the abolition of both the shield and the wealth tax with a higher upper tax band could be seen as fairer, by rich and poor alike.
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