https://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/taxes/articles/what-it-really-means-to-tax-the-rich
What It Really Means to Tax the Rich. The Build Back Better framework released on Oct. 29 includes a new surtax on high earners but omits a true wealth tax. By following a financial strategy and

https://www.vox.com/money/23634085/biden-2024-budget-billionaire-tax-capital-gains
President Biden proposes a 25 percent tax on wealth over $100 million and other changes to reduce the federal deficit and wealth inequality. Learn how the ultra-rich avoid paying taxes and why Biden wants to change that.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/11/02/hard-tax-rich-518383
The author examines the history and challenges of taxing the wealthy in the U.S., from progressive taxation to redistribution. She argues that taxing the rich is popular but not politically viable, and that the U.S. has rejected the European model of broad-based taxation.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/opinion/global-billionaires-tax.html
Historically, the rich had to pay hefty taxes on corporate profits, the main source of their income. And the wealth they passed on to their heirs was subject to the estate tax. But both taxes have

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/biden-set-propose-higher-taxes-rich-work/story?id=96950756
The wealthiest 25 people saw their worth increase a combined $401 billion between 2014 and 2018, but they paid an average federal income tax of 3.4% on that wealth, ProPublica found last year. By

https://www.vox.com/22432338/joe-biden-tax-plan
The 2017 tax cut bill disproportionately benefited rich people and corporations. During the pandemic, many high-income Americans say that their financial situation has improved over the past year.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/19/politics/democrats-taxes-rich-explainer/index.html
Here's how the Democrats want to tax the rich: The top marginal income tax rate would rise to 39.6%, up from 37%, and would apply to single filers with taxable income greater than $400,000 and

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/us/politics/democrats-wealth-tax-supreme-court.html
For years, liberal Democrats have agitated for the United States to tax wealth, not just income, as a way to ensure that rich Americans who derive wealth from real estate, stocks, bonds and other

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/16/1036853972/biden-democrats-tax-the-rich-reagan-trump-reconciliation
The Trump cuts were projected to add up to $2 trillion to the national debt over 10 years. And indeed, federal revenues plummeted immediately — corporate tax revenue fell 31% in the first year

https://fortune.com/2024/06/23/billionaire-wealth-tax-millionaire-top-income-rate-joe-biden-donald-trump-janet-yellen/
Most wealthy Americans are signaling support for President Joe Biden's plan to raise taxes on the rich, and they are even more eager than his administration to tax the world's ultra-rich, a

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/27/1049796950/how-the-proposed-tax-on-billionaires-would-actually-work
CHANG: Both dropped out of the race, but a version of the wealth tax - it might be getting a second life. Today, Senate Democrats unveiled a proposal for a new tax that applies to the super rich

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/23/us/politics/biden-wealthy-tax-rates.html
Doug Mills/The New York Times. WASHINGTON — President Biden is leaning into his push to increase taxes on the rich as he seeks to unify Democrats in the House and Senate behind a $3.5 trillion

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantcheva/files/how_to_tax_the_rich_explained_-_vox.pdf
A guide to the Democratic proposals to raise taxes on the wealthy, from income, wealth, and estate taxes. Learn about the history, theory, and challenges of taxing the rich in the US.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-plan-to-tax-the-rich-and-corporations-begins-to-take-shape/ar-BB1oDpuR
Biden proposes to raise corporate rates from 21 percent to 28 percent — still below the 35 percent rate Trump's 2017 law cut it from — and preserve the Trump-era tax cuts for individuals

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/many-ways-tax-rich
A tax on accrued capital gains. The basic idea: Much of the increase in wealth of the super-rich never is taxed because the owners of these appreciated assets never sell them. To address this, any increase in the value of assets would be subject to an annual capital gains tax, whether they are sold or not. Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-tax-increase-rich/
They pass the added tax costs to customers, employees and shareholders. How much more the rich would pay: $2.1 trillion over 10 years. Former President Donald Trump's signature tax bill lowered

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-rich-50-years-no-trickle-down/
But a new study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich. The new paper, by David Hope of the London School of Economics and

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-calculated-the-true-tax-rates-of-the-wealthiest
The story's main finding was that these 25 people saw their worth rise a collective $401 billion from 2014 to 2018 while paying a total of $13.6 billion in federal income taxes. That amounts to

https://apnews.com/article/irs-treasury-tax-audit-income-7c10474b3129c11d28a3e6a6cb245743
WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS plans to end a major tax loophole for wealthy taxpayers that could raise more than $50 billion in revenue over the next decade, the U.S. Treasury Department says.. The proposed rule and guidance announced Monday includes plans to essentially stop "partnership basis shifting" — a process by which a business or person can move assets among a series of related

https://inequality.org/great-divide/tax-the-rich-we-did-that-once/
In 1940, the federal tax rate on income over $200,000 started at 66 percent. By 1944, the top tax rate on all income over $200,000 — about $3.4 million in today's dollars — had jumped to 94 percent. Post's fabulous penthouse would find no new takers in this new high-tax era. The penthouse went vacant all through the 1940s.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/briefing/corporate-democrats-taxing-the-rich.html
In response, many Democrats have tacked back to the left on economic policy, especially on tax rates for the rich. In 2020, Joe Biden campaigned on raising the income tax, the inheritance tax and

https://www.vox.com/2019/3/19/18240377/estate-tax-wealth-tax-70-percent-warren-sanders-aoc
The Affordable Care Act did include a small 0.9 percent surtax on wages for wealthy individuals, which put their effective top rate (including the existing 2.9 percent Medicare payroll tax) at 43.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/taxes/biden-billionaire-income-tax/
In March, President Biden proposed the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax (BMIT) that would require the wealthiest Americans to pay at least 20% on all income. Currently, billionaires pay an average

https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2019/09/11/how-should-we-tax-the-rich/
This allows an heir to avoid tax on any increases in asset values over a decedent's lifetime. If a share of stock Uncle Harry bought for $10 is worth $100 on the day he dies, his heir would pay

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/17/politics/irs-wealthy-tax-cheats/index.html
The Internal Revenue Service announced Monday its latest move to crack down on wealthy tax cheats - an ongoing effort boosted by funding received through the Democrat-backed Inflation Reduction Act.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-tax-loophole-50-billion-basis-shifting/
Massachusetts sales tax holiday coming in August 00:25. The IRS could raise more than $50 billion in revenue over the next decade by ending a major tax loophole for wealthy taxpayers, the U.S

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/08/first-time-history-us-billionaires-paid-lower-tax-rate-than-working-class-last-year/
By 2018, according to Saez and Zucman, the rich were already enjoying the fruits of that legislation: The average effective tax rate paid by the top 0.1 percent of households dropped by 2.5

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-21/labour-may-need-to-lift-taxes-on-uk-s-wealthy-economists-say
A Labour government might have to increase taxes on the wealthiest Britons to get the national debt falling, according to a new analysis.. Keir Starmer has ruled out increasing income tax

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html
For the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest Americans last year paid a lower total tax rate — spanning federal, state and local taxes — than any other income group, according to newly

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/20/g-s1-1266/supreme-court-tax-law
What's more, various other tax regimes enacted to prevent tax dodges by the rich could also have been at risk, according to George Callas, who, along with then Speaker Paul Ryan, shepherded the