A financial activities tax (FAT) – a tax on the sum of bank profits and bankers’ remuneration packages with the proceeds going into general government revenues.
The Robin Hood tax is a package of financial transaction taxes (FTT) proposed by a campaigning group of civil society non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Campaigners have suggested the tax could be implemented globally, regionally, or unilaterally by individual nations. Conceptually similar to the Tobin tax (which was proposed for foreign...
A Tobin tax was originally defined as a tax on all spot conversions of one currency into another. It was suggested by James Tobin, an economist who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Tobin's tax was originally intended to penalize short-term financial round-trip excursions into another currency. By the late 1990s, the term Tobin...
A financial transaction tax (FTT) is a levy on a specific type of financial transaction for a particular purpose. The tax has been most commonly associated with the financial sector for transactions involving intangible property rather than real property. It is not usually considered to include consumption taxes paid by consumers.[1] A transaction...
台灣的品牌廠大部分失敗於和消費者的溝通上
Public trust in government remains low, as it has for much of the 21st century. Only two-in-ten Americans say they trust the government in Washington to do what is right “just about always” (2%) or “most of the time” (19%).
A median of 62% of adults across the 14 countries surveyed this summer generally believe most people can be trusted.
Trust is essential for community, wellbeing, and effective cooperation. How does trust vary between different societies and locations and what matters for levels of trust?
Morris Pearl, Chair of the Patriotic Millionaires and former Managing Director at BlackRock, said: “In recent decades, wealth inequality has skyrocketed around the world. The growing gap between rich and poor has destabilised the global economy, exacerbated the rise of extremist politics, and frayed the very fabric of our social order. As an ultra-wealthy person, representing an organisation of like-minded wealthy people, I am asking the G20 to tax us
In an open letter to the G20, close to 300 millionaires, economists, and political representatives from almost all G20 countries call for a new international agreement on wealth taxes to “stop extreme wealth from corroding our collective future”.
the vested interests in maintaining the current system, including billionaires, the fossil fuel sector, big pharma, defense, and industrial agriculture will continue to fight to prevent the transformative changes needed. To overcome our societal addiction to the current system will require a broad consensus and movement of movements around the shared goal of sustainable wellbeing for humans and the rest of nature
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G20 Leaders must tax extreme wealth
time lags involved in building dynastic fortunes ... Inequality of income must precede growing inequality of wealth, since wealth is simply the cumulative excess of income over consumption.So, given the current era of highly unequal incomes and social immobility, we can expect inheritance to play a much bigger role in explaining inequality for the generations now entering adulthood. That will include direct transfers of wealth, mainly via inheritances, as well as the effects of increasingly unequal access to education, early job opportunities and home ownership
Are we creating a society Jane Austen might recognise?
馬英九的競選政見本來只說要將遺產稅免稅額及扣除額，提高到2600萬元，反而是謝長廷承諾要將免稅額提高到3000萬元，並將遺產稅最高邊際稅率由50% 降低到10%。但7月23日，工商協進會與劉兆玄早餐，要求將遺產稅先調降至20%，將來完全廢除。劉兆玄表示贊同
過去十幾年中華民國政府所推政策中最爛最爛的是哪個政策？我可以毫不猶豫地告訴你：就是在2008年將原本50%最高邊際稅率的遺產稅率，一舉降為10%。這個政策背後有太多太多的可疑之處
1：資本集中的必然趨勢[啟動LINE推播]每日重大新聞通知法國皮凱提（ThomasPiketty）教授的新書CapitalintheTwentyFirstCentury（我暫譯為《廿一世紀資本論》）獲得《紐約時報》極佳書評，而諾貝爾經濟學獎得主克魯曼甚至誇讚，此書是今年甚或最近十
intergenerational transfers, such as inheritances and inter vivos gifts, play a significant role in underpinning wealth inequality. When inheritances and gifts exceed a certain threshold, the opportunities to accumulate more wealth are greatly expanded
Wealth inequality can limit people’s ability to accumulate human capital, carry out business projects, or cope with major economic crises. Focusing on France, Spain, the UK, and the US, this column shows that intergenerational transfers, such as inheritances and inter vivos gifts, play a significant role in underpinning wealth inequality. When inheritances and gifts exceed a certain threshold, the opportunities to accumulate more wealth are greatly expanded.
美國的起源是清教徒尋找自由土地，其個人主義的「個人」，有信仰約束，自有分寸。現在，信仰淡薄，個人主義淪於自私。
中年人，也就常常是沒有可以傾訴自己情緒，分享成敗的伴侶
當人與人之間，只能以「利」相處時，人間不會再有人類情感
「我可以爲所欲爲，因爲我是勝者。」這個現象
跨國企業菁英與超級富豪階層也順勢取得了無以倫比的政治權力，他們可以凌駕政府、支配社會遊戲規則，並一步步的支解立意在保護弱勢群體、勞工與中產階級權益的經濟管制措施與社會保障體系。他們排斥任何限制其行動自由與資本回報的全球治理或監管機制，他們可以影響美國法律與國際規則，也可以左右國際貨幣基金與美國聯邦儲備理事會的觀點與政策
全球化的紅利與風險之分配嚴重不均
主流政治人物紛紛失去這批選民的信任，因為這些熟面孔不是已經被利益集團徹底綁架，就是面對經濟與社會難題束手無策，選民寧可寄希望於毫無從政經驗的新手
新自由主義思維頌揚個人自由，但也同時獎勵自私、自利與貪婪，並鼓勵對物質欲望無止境的追求。美國富裕階層的所得稅率在發達國家中是最低的，而且跨國企業都盡可能將利潤隱藏在國外租稅天堂，他們自私自利到連最基本的社會義務都設法擺脫
We must act now to tackle the escalating climate crisis and rising poverty. For the first time in a generation, the number of people living in extreme poverty
The geopolitical landscape is now extremely polarised, in large part because multilateral institutions and processes have repeatedly failed the global majority
Over 25 economic thinkers are concerned that the summit for a new global financing pact will not deliver its original ambition of a true pact that would increase financial solidarity with low-income countries.
The recent Paris Summit for a New Global Financing Pact was touted by its organizers, including French President Emmanuel Macron, as a
在台灣引用房板之前的文章大概可以分成九大階級第一階層應該就是上市櫃金控 大型製造業集團大致上就是從日治時代就發跡資產數百億至千億這批人這些人屬於台灣的貴族無論怎麼政黨輪替日本人走了 國軍接收了民進黨輪替了 或未來如何都影響不到他們第二階層大地主 大建設公司公司老董上市公司老闆 包括三代公務員資產大約百億至數百億這些人跟上層社會 有名氣的藍綠及兩岸政治人物有著千絲萬縷的關係第三階層大型工廠企業主 地方仕紳傳統世家極度成功的中小企業主資產數十億至百億之間這些人 能透過特定的管道 組織 或名望約他們想見的政治人物碰面影響到特定的政策推動第四階層比較成功的中小企業主資產數億元至十億元之間數套房產這些人跟立委 地方民代 地方政治人物都有著非常密切的關係無法影響政策 但可以透過民代影響個案第五階層國立大學教授 醫師 開業三師半導體科技業 外商主管做小生意成功的資產數千萬至一至二億之間擁有一至三套房產算目前7-8年級普通人能靠努力爬到的頂峰光鮮亮麗 算中產階級的頂峰第六階層老師 公務員主管級 國營企業外商員工 大企業工程師基本上擁有自住房 買得起一台還不錯的車仍可堪稱 中產階級第七階層較基層的公務員 一般勞工在都會地區甚難買房有能力買在桃園基隆宜蘭等地通勤騎車 搭火車 但買得起國產車需要很勉力的維持接近中產階級的階層一不小心就會往下掉到下個階層第八階層中小企業服務業員工 計程車司機 藍領作業員基本上是月光族或存不到多少七八年級這階層是不用想買房了除了祖上留房 不然就是租房通勤以騎車為主生了小孩就而往往就要打零工做ubereats貼補家用勉力求生 make ends meet第九階層農民 工人 保全 計時服務業基本上在都會地區難以輕鬆存活以租房騎車為主成家不易 可能已經很接近社會邊緣
先不說什麼工作可以翻轉階級因為每個人的人生際遇，金錢觀念等等都不一樣在台灣引用房板之前的文章大概可以分成九大階級
前四層大概1%
第五層大概5-10%
現在掛農保的一堆大地主福利津貼領滿滿
in practice the ordering of these rules ensured that most of the revenue would be collected either by the home countries — mostly major advanced economies — or by tax havens like Ireland, Switzerland and Singapore, which have merely raised their extraordinarily low tax rates to 15 percent.Moving from a world with no minimum tax to one with a 15 percent floor would seem to be a step forward, but there was always good reason to worry that such a low minimum would become the new standard — that a reform designed to raise the bar would actually end up lowering it. And as developing countries rely relatively more on corporate-tax revenue, it was foreseeable that they would be the biggest losers
reinforces global inequities... [non-]inclusive ... [un]sustainable
