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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent

Joseph Stiglitz: tax high earners at 70% to tackle widening inequality

Superyachts moored at Hercules Port in Monaco.
Superyachts moored at Hercules Port in Monaco. Photograph: Valéry Hache/AFP/Getty Images

Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel prize-winning Keynesian economist, has called for the super-rich to be subjected to taxes as high as 70% to help tackle widening inequality.

Stiglitz, who won the Nobel prize in economics in 2001 and pioneered many ideas about globalisation and inequality, said introducing a special worldwide income tax rate of 70% on the highest earners “would clearly make sense”.

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