A global tax on billionaires is on the G20 agenda. Will it ever happen? | CNN Business

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Finance officials from the world’s biggest economies began talks this week on introducing a global minimum tax on billionaires.

The representatives of the G20 countries discussed the proposal at a summit in São Paulo, Brazil, two years after a landmark agreement showed the world could act together in setting a minimum tax rate of 15% for multinational companies.

According to the EU Tax Observatory, the super-rich in big countries pay a far smaller share of their income in taxes than ordinary people. And their wealth is hardly taxed, at effective rates of just

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