March 4, 2021
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Loose multimillionaires estadounidenses habrían has paid 114,000 million dollars combined for 2020 with an “ultramillionaire” tax proposed by the senator. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, following two tax groups.
The project of ley, called Ley de Ultramillonarios, applies a 2% annual rate on individual net assets of between 50 million and millions of dollars. The deberian people complete with a 3% annual tax on a net worth of assets up to millions of dollars.
Warren says that the tax will affect only one of the 100 miles of family families and that the multimillionaires of the paid state are approximately the center of the total amount of the tax.
Approximately 650 multimillionaires of the country have a collective wealth of more than $ 4.2 trillion, dijeron Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies Project on Inequality, based on its calculations in Forbes data. His fortunes have increased by approximately 44% since March 2020, when the pandemic leaders in the United States will start, leaving the groups.
Following the riches of the multimillionaires who were fined in 2020, lasting more than a decade, the wealth was levied solely on the financial resources already in the three quarters of the 1.9 trillion coronavirus package of President Joe Biden, dijeron two groups.
And there is a third of the tax burden on the patrimony that pays the 15 more rich estates, which together have a fortune of more than 2.1 billion dollars.
A separate analysis from the University of California at Berkeley, quoted by Warren, estimates that tax will generate $ 3 trillion in admissions over 10 years.
Warren proposed that the new federal money be invested in programs such as care, education, and infrastructure.
These are Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, the four richest people in the country to be fined in 2020, forbidden by Forbes, had a paycheck by 2020 along with the property tax proposal, including the calculations of the ATF and IPS.
Jeff Bezos: $ 5.7 million
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Amazon’s CEO saliently paid $ 5.7 million in taxes on assets for 2020, the ATF and IPS said. Rounding off 2020, it has a fortune of 191,200 million dollars, according to Forbes data.
The Washington legislators also proposed a tax on the multimillionaires of the state. They pay 2 million dollars a year for this tax.
Elon Musk: $ 4.6 million
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Musk, the technological multimillionaire behind Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company, raised $ 4,600 million by 2020 following Warren’s proposal, including the ATF and IPS.
The fines of 2020, the real value of Musk era of 153.5 million, despite the fact that its wealth multiplied by more than six in 10 months, according to the dates of Forbes.
Bill Gates: $ 3.6 million
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Gates, which has a fortune of 120,000 million dollars in December, according to Forbes, has paid 3,600 million dollars in taxes on the assets during the year, the ATF and IPS.
Mark Zuckerberg: $ 3 million
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The CEO of Facebook has already paid around 3 million dollars in taxes on the assets for 2020, the ATF and IPS will sell. A fine of 2020, tenia un value of 99.9 million dollars, según Forbes.
The impetus of a tax on wealth has increased during the pandemic
An Oxfam report found that the multimillionaires’ wealth had risen by 3.9 trillion dollars since March had reached world level by December. The increase for the 10 richest multimillionaires in the world could pay for all the vacancies and poverty of the poor, said Oxfam. Mientras tanto, in the second half of 2020, 8 million stadiums will be in poverty.
Oxfam suggests that the taxes on the patrimony be a good option to return it. In December, academics will publish a study of 50 years of tax records for the risks that suggest that the economy of “goteo” empeoraba the desigualdad and no production of economic crime or employment.
“Increasing the wealth of multimillionaires in the midst of a health and economic crisis that exceeds millions of estates is one of the best reasons to promote the Ultra Millonarios Tax Law,” said Frank Clemente, executive director of Americans for Tax Fairness.
“This legislation will reduce the destabilizing breach of the nation’s wealth while collecting billions of dollars from multimillionaires and other superpowers.”
Argentina converts to the first country to respond to the pandemic with a single “millionaire tax”. Less than one in 100 perpetrators will pay the tax, which the government hopes will raise $ 3.78 million to help pay for the response to the pandemic.