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Government urged to consider one-off wealth tax to pay for Covid-19 crisis

A wealth tax levied at 1% above £500,000 would require a couple to have net wealth of more than £1m before any wealth tax would be payable

Chancellor Rishi Sunak
Chancellor Rishi Sunak Photo: Getty Images

A one-off wealth tax could raise £260bn to help fix the UK’s finances following the Covid-19 crisis, a report from a group of senior tax experts said.

The report from a group called the Wealth Tax Commission urged the government to introduce a one-off wealth tax to help restore the country’s depleted coffers following coronavirus.

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