Gabriel Zucman

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485 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 12 Jul

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So first of all, the proposal, just to make sure everybody understands,

is to create a minimum tax for people who have more than 100 million pounds or dollars or euros in wealth.

So if you have more than 100 million pounds, you should be paying a minimum amount of tax each and every year.

That's the basic proposal.

You've mentioned the case of Jeff Bezos.

Today, we have super rich people who pay zero.

I think all of us, we agree that it's not acceptable.

Part of men.

Hey, sure.

But almost everybody on that planet agrees that if you are extremely wealthy, you should pay a minimum amount of tax each year.

Number one.

Number two is, okay, if we agree, let's create that principle.

And now how do we make it effective?

If we express the minimum tax as a fraction of income, it does not work.

Because the whole problem is that those super rich individuals, they find ways to report very little income, sometimes no income.

Jeff Bezos paid himself no wage as CEO of Amazon.

Amazon didn't distribute any dividends.

He didn't sell any shares, so he didn't realize any capital gains.

So his taxable income was indeed very low.

But his true ability to pay taxes is, of course, very high.

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