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EY Study: Global Wealth Tax Would Kill 20 Million Jobs and Shrink the Economy

July 23rd 2026
The Zucman Proposed Global Wealth Tax Would Cost Up to 20 million Jobs, $100 billion in labor income, and $800 Billion in Global GDP in the first 10 years, then get worse A major new macroeconomic analysis released by EY finds that a coordinated 2% global minimum tax on billionaire wealth—proposed by economist Gabriel Zucman and commissioned […]