International wealth tax proposals and implementations (1990–2025)

1. Post–Cold War inequality revives wealth-tax debate

   Jan 1, 1990Labels: Europe

   • OECD Reforms
   • OECD Wealth

2. Austria repeals its net wealth tax

   Jan 1, 1994Labels: Austria

   • OECD Reforms
   • OECD Wealth

3. Denmark and Germany repeal wealth taxes

   Jan 1, 1997Labels: Denmark, Germany

   • OECD Reforms
   • OECD Wealth

4. ATTAC founded to press for a Tobin tax

   Jun 3, 1998Labels: ATTAC

   • ATTAC
   • Tobin Tax

5. Netherlands ends its net wealth tax

   Jan 1, 2001Labels: Netherlands

   • OECD Reforms
   • OECD Wealth

6. Finland, Iceland, and Luxembourg repeal wealth taxes

   Jan 1, 2006Labels: Finland, Iceland

   • OECD Reforms
   • OECD Wealth

7. Sweden repeals its net wealth tax

   Jan 1, 2007Labels: Sweden

   • OECD Reforms
   • OECD Wealth

8. Spain reintroduces wealth tax during euro-crisis austerity

   Sep 16, 2011Labels: Spain

   • White Baos
   • Valls

9. EU launches enhanced-cooperation push for a financial transaction tax

   Jan 22, 2013Labels: European Union

   • EU FTT
   • Enhanced

10. France replaces broad wealth tax with real-estate wealth tax

    Jan 1, 2018Labels: France

    • OECD Reforms
    • ISF

11. OECD synthesis highlights wealth-tax retreat and remaining models

    Apr 12, 2018Labels: OECD

    • OECD Wealth
    • OECD Reforms

12. Argentina enacts a one-off pandemic-era “solidarity” wealth levy

    Dec 4, 2020Labels: Argentina

    • BDO
    • Marval

13. Spain makes a new state-level “Solidarity Tax on Large Fortunes”

    Dec 28, 2022Labels: Spain

    • BLAW
    • Bov

14. G20 debate opens on a global minimum tax on billionaires

    Jun 25, 2024Labels: G20, Gabriel Zucman

    • G20 Brazil
    • G20 News

15. Colombia expands wealth-tax measures during a declared economic emergency

    Dec 24, 2025Labels: Colombia

    • El Pa s
    • PwC Colombia