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“There is certainly plenty of potential for conflict,” says Giulia Varaschin from the Paris-based EU Tax Observatory. “The question will be who will do what. It is quite conceivable that the two will coexist.”

The EU Tax Observatory estimated that the Australian law would affect almost 900 US companies operating in Australia, as well as 180 Japanese companies, 161 Chinese and 111 French.

Economist Quentin Parrinello, director of the European Tax Observatory and part of Gabriel Zucman's team, also celebrates the visibility of the topic. "We've had the G20 for several decades, and this is the first time in the group's history that we've had a conversation about taxing the super-rich.

An economist specializing in inequalities who was tapped by the Brazilian G20 presidency to write a report on the issue, Gabriel Zucman, hailed the "historic decision."

Os dois, diria, pois também é uma questão de justiça. Cada vez mais, os investidores, consumidores e pessoas em geral estão conscientes de que os impostos apoiam um sistema em rede e, quando uma empresa se implanta num determinado país, utiliza toda essa infraestrutura.

“You do that by creating an offshore legal architecture, a set of laws and regulations that allow foreign individuals or companies to benefit from low tax rates without their home countries realising it,” added Laffitte.

Pour l’un, il faut s’assurer que les plus riches paient leur juste part d’impôt. Pour l’autre, il faut faire un effort sur les dépenses, trop élevées en France. Débat entre deux économistes de renommée internationale.

A proposta defendida pelo Brasil foi idealizada pelo economista francês Gabriel Zucman, professor de economia na Escola de Economia de Paris e da Universidade da Califórnia, e apresentada ao G20 no último mês de junho. Com uma taxa de 2% para os bilionários de todo o mundo, a medida poderia gerar um

L'économiste Gabriel Zucman a déclaré que l'impôt de 20% sur les plus aisés allait dans la bonne direction, mais qu'il allait rater sa cible, car cet impôt est exprimé en pourcentage du revenu taxable. Comment faire pour améliorer la fiscalité sur le sommet de la distribution ?

Since 2022, Russian nationals have bought up $6.3 billion (£4.8 billion) in existing and in-development properties in Dubai, according to a group of economists with the EU Tax Observatory and Norway’s Centre for Tax Research.