EU loses €33m an hour in super-rich's unpaid taxes

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A private jet. Oxfam estimates a super-rich wealth tax of between two and five percent could raise €286.5bn a year (Photo: Starr-Environmental)
EU loses €33m an hour in super-rich's unpaid taxes
Green Economy
Health & Society
by Paula 
        Soler, Brussels, 
The European Parliament meets later on Thursday (11 April) for its second-last plenary session — but this time with a special guest waiting outside its Brussels building. 
While MEPs are expected to debate and vote on various energy market pieces of legislation, Oxfam, together with Avaaz and WeMove Europe, will land an inflatable private jet outside the parliament building to call on EU lawmakers to take wider action against Europe'...
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Author BioPaula joined EUobserver in January 2023 and left for Euronews in 2024. Previously she worked for the Spanish online newspaper El Confidencial, where she covered mainly economic and financial affairs.
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A private jet. Oxfam estimates a super-rich wealth tax of between two and five percent could raise €286.5bn a year (Photo: Starr-Environmental)

Author Bio

Paula joined EUobserver in January 2023 and left for Euronews in 2024. Previously she worked for the Spanish online newspaper El Confidencial, where she covered mainly economic and financial affairs.

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