Should very rich people pay more taxes? The idea of taxing the rich more has many proponents – and some are very rich. This includes heir Stefanie Bremer, not her real name. She comes from a family of German entrepreneurs. He appears in public under a pseudonym to protect his relatives.
Stefanie Bremer deals with taxpayers, a group of millionaires committed to higher taxation of their assets in the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland). what motivates you “Current legislation gives preferential tax treatment to wealthy people. There is also a huge wealth inequality.”
One of the demands of the tax officials: The wealth tax must be reintroduced in Germany. Switzerland is currently one of the few countries with such a tax – it has been abolished in most countries. “There were too many exceptions,” explains Florian Scheuer, Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich. And with it tax loopholes.
Why does the wealth tax work better in Switzerland than anywhere else? How fair is the tax system? And what are the most appropriate taxes to prevent the wealth gap from widening? You can hear all about it in the last episode “Durchblick”.
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