Tax Wealth Not Work

The journal

Journal

Each article takes one objection to a wealth tax and follows the evidence to where it leads.

  1. No. 05

    Would a Wealth Tax Raise Meaningful Revenue?

    So few people would pay it that the exercise is theatre, the objection goes. That deserves a number rather than a rebuttal. Twenty-two thousand people, and what the modelling says they would raise.

    Tax revenue, UK public finances, Wealth distribution

  2. No. 04

    Norway 2022: What Actually Happened

    Among the households Norway's 2022 increase reached, out-migration rose from 0.2 per cent to more than 2 per cent inside a year. The strongest published evidence against the case this site argues.

    Capital flight, Migration evidence, Norway

  3. No. 03

    Why "Would You Leave?" Surveys Don't Measure Leaving

    A survey asks what someone would do. A tax record shows what they did. Four questions that tell you which kind of number you are being shown.

    Migration evidence, Statistics, Survey methodology

  4. No. 02

    Exit Charges: What One Is, and Whether It Would Work Here

    Britain has no exit charge. Four countries run one, and they disagree about almost everything except the principle. What a UK design would have to pick, and the question none of them has answered.

    Capital flight, Exit tax, UK tax policy

  5. No. 01

    Won't the Rich Simply Leave the Country?

    Britain ran the experiment in 2017. HMRC's own records show what wealthy residents did when a substantial tax privilege was removed, and it is not what either side of this argument usually claims.

    Capital flight, HMRC evidence, Non-dom reform