Funding the end of extreme poverty through more taxes on the super rich
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More taxes on the super wealthy is not a radical idea but a response to radical inequality in the world, says José Gilberto Scandiucci, Brazil's Minister-Counsellor to the UN. Speaking at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, he points out that the world's wealthiest people pay, on average, 0.3 per cent of their income in taxes.
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