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Overwhelming majority for UN Tax Convention

a vote in the 2nd Committee of the UN General Assembly ended with an overwhelming majority in favor of approving the Terms of Reference for a UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation. The negotiation process for the new convention is now set to begin in February 2025 and end in 2027.

Another overwhelming majority puts the UN Tax Convention negotiations on track, but the EU abstains – Eurodad

Why a global tax on the rich …

is indeed a very good and reasonable option

Opinion | Why global tax on super rich is least bad option to tackle crises | South China Morning Post (scmp.com)

One Step Towards a UN Tax Convention

The UN Intergovernmental Committee on International Tax Cooperation has adopted, with the support of a large majority of member states, a Terms of Reference (ToR) that is the blueprint for developing the convention. Negotiations based on the ToR are planned over the next three years and should result in the adoption of a UN Global Tax Convention expected in 2027.

ITUC welcomes UN progress toward international tax cooperation convention – International Trade Union Confederation (ituc-csi.org)

Tax Rules for a Globalised World

The European Union can be the biggest winner from the United Nations tax convention.

Developing tax rules for a globalised world (socialeurope.eu)

How to tax the world’s richest?

Analysis of Zucman’s proposal:

A Practical Prescription for Taxing Our World’s Richest – Inequality.org

A political vaccine against the far right

Real solutions to the crises fuelling the far right needs demand public investment. The super-rich must pay their share.

Tax on billionaires—political vaccine against the far right (socialeurope.eu)

Step forward in UN Tax Convention Process

International tax dodging, corporate tax reform, wealth taxes and environmental tax issues were all on the agenda of the first substantial negotiations of the UN Tax Convention process, which ended this week in New York. The process included all 193 Member States at the United Nations, and at the final plenary, all countries reached a consensus agreement on the next – and final – negotiating round, starting in July this year. 

Important step forward for UN Tax Convention process – Eurodad

A billionaire tax for social security

In a number of swing states in the US people agree to have a billinaire tax pay for better social security

Billionaire tax to bolster Social Security popular in swing states | The Hill

The Myth of the Mobile Millionaire

The notion that rich taxpayers will flee if the state comes for their money is mostly fiction.

The Myth of the Mobile Millionaire – The Atlantic

EU: 33 million euros per hour missing

EU governments are losing out on a staggering 286.5 billion euros in revenue annually, equivalent to 33 million euros per hour, due to their failure to fairly tax Europe’s wealthiest. This amount, equivalent to Finland’s GDP, represents what a European wealth tax of up to 5 percent could raise every year, according to Oxfam’s analysis.

EU governments miss 33 million euros per hour in unpaid taxes from Europe’s super-rich | Oxfam International

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