USA On Thursday he opposed the creation of a global tax on large fortunes, but Brazil welcomed the meeting of finance ministers of the G20 in Rio de Janeiro marks “the first step” to materialize the ambitious idea. The proposal to tax the super-rich is being pushed at the G20 by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio […]
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The proposal for a global minimum tax for the ultra-rich advances in the G20
The economist Gabriel Zucman, one of the world’s leading experts on taxation, presented this Tuesday a report commissioned by the Brazilian Presidency of the G20 in which a proposal for a minimum global tax on the income of citizens is detailed. ultra rich. The proposal is that around 3,000 billionaires pay at least 2% of […]
Day by day: this week’s economic agenda in America
This week the data from the first review of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the United States for the first quarter and employment data in Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Colombia corresponding to April will be published. These are the keys that will mark the week in America: Monday 27 The National Institute of Statistics […]
The US and Chile have “strong commitment to shared objectives,” says Yellen
The US Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, He stated this Friday that Chili and USA they have a “strong commitment to shared objectives”, within the framework of his visit to the South American country, where he landed this morning after attending Brazil to the meeting of the finance ministers of the G20. “The United […]
G20 Finance Ministers fail to reach agreement due to geopolitical differences
The meeting of G20 finance ministers held in São Paulo closed this Thursday without a joint statement due to differences on issues.geopolitics” like the conflict in Ukraine, reported the Brazilian Government. Brazilian Finance Minister and summit host Fernando Haddad said that geopolitical issues, especially ongoing conflicts, “contaminated” the possibility of reaching an agreement, despite the […]
Brazil urges the G20 to act “together” so that the super-rich stop evading taxes
The Minister of Finance of BrazilFernando Haddad, urged this Thursday the G20 to act out “together” so that the super-rich stop evading taxes, by creating a global tax on great fortunes, and announced that he will present a proposal to the forum in that regard “Until July”. “Honestly, I wonder how we, Ministers of the […]
Brazil proposes to the G20 to launch a “new socio-environmental globalization”
The Minister of Finance of Brazil, Fernando Haddad, proposed this Wednesday to his peers from the G20 launch a “new socio-environmental globalization” not governed by profits “immediate”with the aim of reducing growing inequality in the world. In the opening speech of the meeting, Haddad criticized that global economic integration was confused in recent decades with […]
The G20 of Finance discusses in Brazil the green transition and taxes on the rich
The Ministers of Economy of the G20 They meet between this Wednesday and Thursday in São Paulo (Brazil) with the financing of the ecological transition, the taxation of large fortunes and the fight against inequality at the center of the debates. Brazil, which holds the presidency of the forum that brings together the largest economies […]
G20 foreign ministers express concern about escalating conflicts in the world
The meeting of foreign ministers of the G20 He ended his first day of work in Rio de Janeiro this Wednesday with latent concern about the conflicts in the Gaza Strip and Ukraine and a call for peace and solidarity by some member countries. The event, which brings together the foreign ministers of the world’s […]
Putin returns to the scene calling to stop the “tragedies” of Ukraine and Gaza
The Russian president, Vladimir Putinreturned today to the international stage at the summit of the G20 calling to stop “the tragedies” of Ukraine, brutal war started by Russia in 2022, and Gaza Stripterritory bombed for weeks by Israel. “I understand that war, the death of people, cannot not be moved. And the bloody blow in […]