G20 ministers get behind a global wealth tax on billionaires

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G20 ministers get behind a global wealth tax on billionaires

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s 3,000 billionaires should pay a minimum 2 percent tax on their fast-growing wealth to raise about $313 billion a year for the global fight against poverty, inequality, and global heating, ministers from four leading economies have suggested. In a sign of growing international support for a levy on the super-rich, Braz…