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  1. Taxes on Wealth
  • Overview
  • Wealth Topography
    • Wealth composition
    • Focus on specific components
    • Asset comparison
  • Wealth Inequality
    • Net wealth distribution
    • Asset ownership rates
  • Taxes on Wealth
    • Tax features
    • Time trends
    • Tax schedules
    • Focus: U.S. states
  • Inheritance Trends
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    • Cross-national comparisons
    • Determinants of wealth and wealth inequality
    • Taxes on wealth
    • Impacts of wealth inequality
    • Intergenerational wealth
    • Methods of estimation of wealth inequality
    • Trends in aggregate wealth and wealth inequality
    • Wealth taxation

Taxes on Wealth

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Taxes on Wealth

Increasing our understanding of estate, inheritance, and gift taxation is critical for better understanding their roles in promoting economic growth, reducing inequality, and funding public goods and services. Explore the novel comprehensive compilation of data related to the evolution of estate, inheritance, and gift taxation across countries. It contains information on full tax schedules, marginal tax rates, tax revenues, and exemption thresholds.

Taxes on Wealth

Tax features

Visualize tax rates, revenues, and exemption thresholds across countries.

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Taxes on Wealth

Time trends

Compare any two key features over time and by country.

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Taxes on Wealth

Tax schedules

Visualize the tax rate applying to all inheritance or estate values in a country for the selected years. Compare countries' tax rates in a single year, or compare tax schedules across kinships for one country.

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Taxes on Wealth

Focus: U.S. states

Explore state-level maps, time trends, and full tax schedule comparisons.

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Data Sources Library: Taxes on Wealth

A full list of sources for this database is available in the Taxes on Wealth section of the Data Sources Library.

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Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Graduate Center, CUNY
Roma Tre University
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