Nearly 20 former heads of state and government from G20 and high-income countries have called on current G20 leaders to support a new global agreement to tax the ultra-rich in an open letter published on Thursday 11 July.
The former leaders believe that Brazil’s proposal to the G20 (see EUROPE B13440A19) highlights “the opportunity to write a new history about taxation for the first time in a generation”, at a time when “billionaires, globally, are paying a tax rate equivalent to...