The European Parliament is debating taxing the ultra-rich today. We woke up early this morning to call the EU to end loopholes, boost transparency and #TaxTheSuperRich. 8 in 10 euros of EU tax revenue come from ordinary Europeans! This must end ✊💶 @epsu.bsky.social @eeb.org @greenpeace.eu

🗣️ At today’s European Parliament hearing on taxing the ultra-rich, we say: enough loopholes, enough excuses. Ordinary people contribute 8 in 10 euros of EU tax revenue while billionaires add €405B to their wealth. It’s time for an EU roadmap to tax extreme wealth. ✊💶 #TaxTheSuperRich

PRESS RELEASE: G20 billionaires’ fortunes rise by $2.2TN in just one year, more than enough to lift everyone above the global poverty line. South Africa puts a stern test to G20 leaders to confront the scourge of global inequality. 👉 oxfam.org/en/press-rel... #G20SouthAfrica

‼️ Europe’s Elite Emit More Carbon in a Week than Someone from the Bottom Half Does in a Year. New Oxfam research reveals how Europe’s wealthiest are driving the bloc’s emissions while ordinary Europeans make the steepest cuts. Read 👉 oxfam.org/en/press-rel... #ClimateCrisis

Very honest and diverse debate on Tuesday in the European Parliament on inequality and taxation of extreme wealth. See the highlights here 👇

Hier au Parlement 🇪🇺 on a présenté notre rapport "A European Agenda to Tax the Super-Rich". Message clair : Sans justice fiscale, pas de justice sociale. 💸 Il est temps de rééquilibrer le poids entre travail et capital. @chiaraputaturo.bsky.social @juliendesiderio.bsky.social @oxfameu.bsky.social

📢 EU Billionaires’ wealth surges by over €400bn in first half of 2025. That’s over €2bn a day. 🔗https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/eu-billionaires-wealth-surges-over-eu400-billion-first-half-2025 #TaxTheRich

‼️New Oxfam Tax Report: "A European Agenda to Tax the Super-Rich". 📆9 October. The report delves into wealth concentration in the EU, examines the different tax regimes that drive this, and presents a roadmap for taxing the super-rich. Write to [email protected] for an embargoed copy.

Event: Inequality and taxation of extreme wealth: what role for the EU? When & Where? 📅 Tuesday, Oct 14 2025 16:15 - 18:15 CEST 🗺️ European Parliament, Room Spaak 4B1 Register 🔗 www.eventbrite.be/e/inequality...

Ultra-rich are taxed less than ordinary people. Yet, G20 millionaires support higher taxes on wealth & believe extreme wealth is a threat to democracy. Our colleague Isabelle Brachet writes what @eu2025dk.bsky.social can easily do to advance to #TaxTheSuperRich. Denmark, can you score?

EC proposal for new EU own resources: CSOs and trade unions welcome much needed revenue proposals but regret they do not target the wealthiest and the most profitable and polluting companies: www.mffhub.org/press/csos-t...

REACTION: The #FFD4 showed the challenges remaining to meet the Sustainable Development Goals - but also the power of international cooperation. 👉 oxf.am/ffd-reaction

Good news from #FFD4: 8 countries have committed to work together on higher taxes on luxury air travel, raising funds for global climate action.🔥 Now more countries need to join - and tax profits of fossil fuel corporations too. #MakeRichPollutersPay solidaritylevies.org/eight-countr...

REACTION: Oxfam welcomes Brazil, Spain and South Africa’s new coalition to tax the super-rich, launched today at #FFD4. Tackling extreme inequality is vital to fund development goals. Now other countries must follow their lead. 👉 oxf.am/tax-rich-ffd

Commissioner Síkela announced DG INTPA 2024 I-Marker scores. Good start, but what can improve?🤔 👉Data evidence 👉Quality implementation of the tool 👉Inclusion of DIAs We believe in the importance of the I-Marker and its potential - provided it gets enough political commitment. Let’s collaborate!💪

For two years in a row, the #EU Commission recognises that fair taxation on the wealthiest has recently gained momentum in the international context. #TaxTheRich can reduce inequality, provide tax revenue for public services, and contribute to fiscal sustainability. 🔗 op.europa.eu/en/publicati...

Oxfam #EU Academy 2025 was truly rewarding. Having learned about the EU’s institutions, political landscape, power balance, rise of the far-right, and how these shape #Oxfam’s engagement opportunities and challenges within the EU policy cycle. Big thanks to @oxfameu.bsky.social for the opportunity!

💰 Today, EU finance ministers are meeting & we are calling for bold, fair, and sustainable ways to raise new revenue for people and planet. Oxfam, alongside 20 other organisations, has put forward four proposals to help the EU fund its own budget by making sure those most able to pay do their part.

PRESS RELEASE: 8 out of 10 people support taxing oil and gas corporations to pay for climate damages, global survey by @greenpeace.org and @oxfaminternational.bsky.social finds. Study launched today as governments meet for #JuneClimateMeetings #SB62. 👉https://oxf.am/polluters-profit-tax

It's time to make polluters pay! ✈️ Ahead of #ECOFIN, Oxfam & 19 other organisations are calling on EU Finance Ministers to embrace aviation taxation. These taxes could raise €53 billion/year according to the European Climate Foundation.

Ahead of #ECOFIN, Oxfam along with 19 organisations, is demanding new, fair EU own resources. Example: an EU Financial Transaction Tax could alone raise €33 bn/yr according to the European Climate Foundation. This could fund climate action, repay debt and fight inequality.

Global CEO pay increased by 50 percent since 2019, 56 times more than worker wages, according to new Oxfam statistics. Every hour, billionaires pocket more wealth than the average worker earns in an entire year. ▶️ www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel... #InternationalWorkersDay #IWD

#TAXMIX2050 En direct du EU Tax Symposium, le grand rassemblement européen sur la fiscalité. Avec la taxation des ultra-riches au menu. Gabriel Zucman y présente sa proposition : Un impôt minimum de 3% sur les grandes fortunes dans l’UE pourrait rapporter 121 milliards d’euros par an.

Pasquale Tridico at #TaxMix2050: "Inequality has been rising and is one of the causes of economic stagnation. The distribution of wealth should be a priority"

Ahead of tomorrow’s EU Tax Symposium, the @taxobservatory.bsky.social put forward a proposal to tax the super-rich in the EU. In response, Oxfam tax expert @chiaraputaturo.bsky.social said, “taxing Europe’s super-rich is the gamechanger”. 👉 www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

🎤 @surruiz.bsky.social Oxfam International’s Tax Policy Lead, will moderate the panel: European and International Corporate Tax Reform: What Are the Next Steps? 🗓️ 18 March |  EU Tax Symposium Register and get the latest on tax reform 👉 europa.eu/!RrQvXv  #TaxMix2050

138 NGO leaders tell Keir Starmer: "It is unacceptable that taxing extreme wealth was not looked at before cutting UK aid." www.bond.org.uk/press-releas...

Brian Cox on why a wealth tax is needed, especially now: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

PRESS RELEASE: In January, billionaires amassed more wealth than the poorest third of humanity owns. Over 50 international organizations, including @oxfaminternational.bsky.social, have joined forces under the #TaxTheSuperRich Movement. oxf.am/JanuaryBilli...

French MPs vote wealth tax on the ultra-rich www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar....

‼️EU #TaxHaven's List: All Process, No Progress. "At the end of the day, this is about fairness. It is about making sure that Europe’s taxpayers are not footing the bill for the super-rich and big companies hiding their wealth offshore", @chiaraputaturo.bsky.social. 👉 www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

Breaking: Oxfam America is joining the lawsuit to block the Trump administration's assault on humanitarian aid. The attack on foreign assistance and USAID is an illegal and unconstitutional action that exacerbates existing humanitarian crises and will have life or death consequences for millions.

MEDIA REACTION: Oxfam echoes call to end “oligarchic rule” at Vatican tax justice summit. "2025 is not just another year —it is a last-ditch opportunity to stop runaway inequality," said Oxfam's Susana Ruiz. oxf.am/41oJG1X

Pasquale Tridico, chair of the EP FISC committee, at the #TaxJustice at the Vatican with @icrict.bsky.social: "Inequality has increased, it is detrimental for the economy...We are missing huge part of wealth, that does not belong to neither labor or capital. This is why we need a wealth tax!"

Gerassimos Thomas at #TaxJustice at the Vatican with @icrict.bsky.social: "On wealth and individuals' taxation, an historical agreement was achieved last year at G20 and UN to start addressing this. We have to invest time to put in place transparency, asset registries and technology requirements."

🚨 Live Event Alert! 🚨 Stay tuned for #TaxJustice at the Vatican 🏛️ 📅 February 13 | ⏰ 8:30 AM CET 👉 #TaxThePower! #TaxTheSuperRich 🌍 Full agenda: icrict.com/corporate-ta... @pontifexes.bsky.social

[email protected] at EP FISC Committee on taxation of High Net Worth Individuals: "I'm very sympathetic to the notion of fairness. First approach has to be European,on transparency, but I will also push internationally.It's not easy, but this does not mean that it's not worth pursuing it"

"Taxation does not harm competitiveness and the harmonisation of capital income taxation is simplification for both companies and individuals. It is clear that both inequality and harmful tax regimes hurt a good business environment." @chiaraputaturo.bsky.social at @feps-europe.eu tax event.

The protocol on tackling tax-related Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) is very important to combat practices that drain resources from developing countries. icrict.com/non-classe/a... #TaxTheRich

The Trump Administration's decision to suspend U.S. foreign aid could have life or death consequences for millions of people. Even with a humanitarian waiver, vital sanitation, protection and other aid could be withheld from people experiencing crisis around the globe.

Billionaire wealth in the EU surges by nearly €400 million per day in 2024, and most wealth is not earned, says @oxfameu.bsky.social EU leaders need to tax more the wealth and capital of the super-rich. I will speak about it on February 4th at @feps-europe.eu event: feps-europe.eu/event/capita...

🌍Big news: We’re launching a global movement to #TaxTheSuperRich🚀​Campaign groups around the world are banding together to call time on extreme inequality and higher taxes on the super-rich. It's the only way to raise $ for people and planet. Learn more:

370 millionaires, including 50 EU millionaires like Marlene Engelhorn, signed a letter to tell world governments at the World Economic Forum in Davos to #EndInequality and #TaxtheRich 👇 Photo by Lorena Sendic Silvera

Today's coverage of Oxfam's new Davos report #TakersNotMakers by @politico.eu. “Billionaire wealth is exploding, and the bottom line is most wealth is not earned, it is inherited.” said @chiaraputaturo.bsky.social.

‼️NEW: Billionaire wealth in the EU surges by nearly €400 million per day in 2024, with a new billionaire nearly every week. This is according to Oxfam EU's new research out ahead of #WEF. #TakersNotMakers Link 👉 www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel... A 🧵

PRESS RELEASE: Billionaire wealth surges by $2 trillion in 2024, 3 times faster than the year before, while the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since 1990. At this pace, we won’t see 1 trillionaire in a decade, but 5. oxf.am/TakersNotMak... #WEF2025

‼️EU journalists: Oxfam will publish its annual #inequality report on the opening day of the #WEF2025 in #Davos on 20 January. Contact [email protected] for an embargoed copy and/or interview requests.

“Europe's elite have a massive carbon footprint. Their outsized emissions are pressing fast-forward on the climate crisis,” @ChiaraPutaturo. “European governments must tax the wealthiest to curb their emissions and fund climate action,” she added. euobserver.com/green-econom...

Today is the Pollutocrat Day: the richest 1% have already burned through their share of the annual global carbon budget.

It's 'Pollutocrat Day'! We're just ten days into 2025, and the richest 1% have already burned through their entire annual carbon limit.  As the wealthiest continue polluting, the people least responsible for the climate crisis pay the price. Time to makerichpolluterspay.org