We Need to Tax Billionaires
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21st May 2026
Price: £9.99
The solution to inequality that is at the vanguard of the new political debate.
While ordinary citizens pay around half of their income in tax, billionaires pay often close to zero income tax – because they earn almost all their income through companies. The solution is the 2% “Zucman tax”: a minimum tax on the ultra-rich themselves, advocated by economist and global expert on the taxation of wealth Gabriel Zucman. We need to tax billionaires, and this game-changing book shows us why now is the moment.
While ordinary citizens pay around half of their income in tax, billionaires pay often close to zero income tax – because they earn almost all their income through companies. The solution is the 2% “Zucman tax”: a minimum tax on the ultra-rich themselves, advocated by economist and global expert on the taxation of wealth Gabriel Zucman. We need to tax billionaires, and this game-changing book shows us why now is the moment.
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Zucman is one of the most important economists of our time. We Need to Tax Billionaires is the definitive guide to solving what shouldn't be a puzzle at all. With crystalline clarity, he shows that taxing billionaires isn't some radical utopian dream - it's straightforward, practical, and entirely achievable with the tools we already have. This is economics at its most useful: a blueprint that leaves readers not with despair, but with impatience. Read it, share it, and let's get on with it