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This week’s wealth tax coverage was dominated by Gov. Newsom’s call for a national “billionaires tax” while reiterating his opposition to California’s state-level ballot measure—a stance widely criticized across the political spectrum as inconsistent political...

Wealth taxes dominated the agenda this week, headlined by California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s call for a national billionaires’ tax just as the state’s own billionaire’s wealth tax measure was cemented on the November ballot over his objections, setting up a costly,...

Yet another tax-the-rich initiative is running into reality. By WILL SWAIM   An SEIU-backed measure to tax the global assets of California’s roughly 200 billionaires may be the rare progressive tax proposal defeated not by corporate money but by organized labor...

A recent episode of the Radio Free California podcast features an in-depth discussion with Hoover Institution researchers Josh Rauh and Ben Jaros on California's proposed billionaire wealth tax and the unintended consequences they believe it could trigger. Beginning...

This week's wealth tax developments span coast to coast and across the Atlantic: California's proposed billionaire tax faces mounting opposition from an unlikely coalition of labor unions, business groups, and medical interests as it heads toward the November ballot,...

This week’s wealth-tax debate spanned from federal proposals to tax AI-driven wealth and close billionaire borrowing loopholes to broader calls for public ownership or stronger taxation of extreme wealth. California remained the focal point, as its proposed one-time...

This week’s wealth tax developments reflect continuing debate across California, Connecticut, Washington, New York City, and beyond, with supporters framing new taxes as a response to inequality and public-funding pressures while critics warn about migration,...

This week’s wealth tax debate continued to intensify across the federal and state landscape, with developments spanning California’s proposed billionaire tax, Washington’s new millionaires tax, Rhode Island’s high-earner surtax, New York City’s proposed second-home...

This week’s wealth tax developments ranged from a new federal proposal to tax large trust holdings to intensifying state and local debates in California, Illinois, Washington, and New York over billionaire taxes, millionaire-income taxes, and second-home levies....