Wealth tax on UK’s super-rich could raise £10bn a year, Andy Burnham told

Academics said the wealth tax would affect fewer than 1,000 of the richest UK households. Photograph: Alex Segre/Alamy

A wealth tax on the UK’s super-rich households could raise £10bn a year, according to academics who urged Andy Burnham to include the measure in his plans to “make tax fairer” and pay for better public services.

The sum could be raised through a 2% minimum charge on households with more than £100m in wealth and would affect fewer than 1,000 of the richest UK households, according to the study by Gabriel Zucman, a professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics, and Ben Tippet, a lecturer in economics and wealth inequality at King’s College London.