Reports

$2 Trillion, or 70%, Pandemic Wealth Gain of Nation’s 740 Richest May Well Go Untaxed, Making Case for President Biden’s Proposed Billionaires Income Tax A Similar Tax Proposed by Senate’s Chief Tax Writer Would Reap Up to $555 Billion to Lower Working-Family Costs for Healthcare, Childcare & Other Vital Services On Tax Day, April 18, […]

That Huge Leap in Wealth May Never Be Taxed Unless Congress Enacts a Billionaires Income Tax  Two years into the biggest national health crisis in recent history, U.S. billionaires’ wealth continues to soar above the misery: as of March 10, their collective wealth has shot up by $1.7 trillion, or 57%, since the pandemic emergency […]

Half of MLB Owners Now Locking Out America’s Pastime Are Billionaires Whose Wealth Increased 25% During the Pandemic  Half the baseball owners threatening America’s pastime by locking out their players in a greedy money grab belong to another club: that of billionaires, who as a group are hitting up the American people by paying too […]

Report Reveals Gaping Tax Loopholes that Allow Richest Families to Hoard Trillions in Wealth by Avoiding Estate and Related Transfer Taxes; Mild Reforms Were Stripped from Build Back Better Act that Passed the U.S. House America’s wealthy family dynasties are poised to hoard $21 trillion in wealth between now and 2045 using huge loopholes in […]

661 Billionaires Pumped $1.2 Billion Into 2020 Elections—About 1 Out of Every 10 Dollars Contributed As American Tycoons Translate Riches Into Political Clout  Twelve years after the Supreme Court opened the floodgates to big money in politics with its controversial Citizens United decision handed down Jan. 21, 2010, a new report from Americans for Tax […]

Collective Fortune of 10 Richest Americans More Than Doubled Since Start of the Pandemic in March 2020, to $1.35 Trillion; With Every Passing Second, $12,600 Wealthier As the World Economic Forum, criticized “as an elitist gathering of the super-rich,” met virtually this week, the wealth of America’s 10 richest billionaires reached $1.35 trillion, more than […]

25% Jump in Collective Wealth of Nation’s Billionaires—All Tax Free—Could Pay for Half of 10-Year Build Back Better Plan America’s nearly 750 billionaires collectively got $1 trillion richer in 2021, a tax-free 25% gain, according to calculations by Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) based on Forbes data. Their wealth rose from $4.1 trillion to $5.1 […]

Proposed ‘Billionaires Income Tax’ Would Tap Pandemic Profits & Other Investment Gains of Richest 750 Americans to Fund Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda Billionaires in nearly every corner of America got richer during COVID and their pandemic profits—along with other investment income currently not taxed—would be subject to a Billionaires Income Tax now being considered […]

Sen. Wyden’s Billionaires Income Tax Tapping Those Huge Returns Could Raise Big Revenue to Fund President Biden’s Build Back Better Investment Plan America’s billionaires have grown $2.1 trillion richer during the pandemic, their collective fortune skyrocketing by 70%—from just short of $3 trillion at the start of the COVID crisis on March 18, 2020, to […]

Billionaires’ Collective Fortune Grew $1.8 Trillion Over 17 Months, Enough to Pay for Over Half of Biden’s Proposed $3.5 Trillion Investment in Healthcare, Education & More  America’s billionaires have grown $1.8 trillion richer during the pandemic, their collective fortune skyrocketing by nearly two-thirds (62%) from just short of $3 trillion at the start of the […]