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"Should billionaires pay more tax? Californians will vote for whether to
introduce a billionaire tax in November. In the United Kingdom, economists
recently called for a net wealth tax on assets over £10 million (about A$19
million).
Australia may seem absent from the debate, but it shouldn’t be. The same
question confronting other countries applies here too: should people with
extraordinary wealth contribute more tax, and if so, what’s the best way to
achieve it?
How do billionaires accumulate wealth?
To answer that question, it’s first important to understand that people with
substantial wealth accumulate it differently from most Australians.
They use a range of structures, assets and strategies, including trusts,
private companies, capital gains and tax minimisation.
Let’s take a closer look at just one of these: getting wealthier “on paper”
with unrealised capital gains."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics