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What are wealth taxes? Taxes that make you pay a levy based on your assets – typically your net wealth – rather than your income from work. Such taxes used to be far more common globally than they are

Parents of young children, and pet owners, often start to worry when they have been enjoying an unusually long period of silence. Investors are experiencing a similar sensation. Markets seem calm, wit

A clock that first struck the hour as ...

The “most hated” tax Controversy of the week ...

“There is always someone worse off than you,” as Aesop reminded us. That also means there is always someone to feel superior to. In post-war Europe, Italy was the country everyone made fun of, dismiss

Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight