世界の上位１％の超富裕層、１０年で資産６４８０兆円増 オックスファム

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】世界の上位１％の超富裕層は、過去１０年間で資産を４２兆ドル（約６４８０兆円）増やした。国際ＮＧＯオックスファムが２５日、発表した。（写真は１００ドル紙幣。資料写真）
　オックスファムによると、この４２兆ドルという数字は、世界の下位５０％が保有する資産の約３６倍に相当する。
　その一方で同ＮＧＯは、こうした超富裕層は「資産の０．５％未満に相当する税金しか支払っていない」と指摘している。
　超富裕層への課税については、ブラジル・リオデジャネイロで２５日から始まる主要２０カ国・地域（Ｇ２０）財務相・中央銀行総裁会議での主要議題となる見通し。
　参加するフランス、スペイン、南アフリカ、コロンビア、アフリカ連合は課税に賛成しているが、米国ははっきりと反対を表明している。
　会議での議論についてオックスファムは「Ｇ２０にとって真の試金石」と表現しており、超富裕層の「極端な富」に最低８％の課税を実施するよう求めている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/07/25-20:35）

The world's richest one percent increased their fortunes by a total of $42 trillion over the past decade, Oxfam said Thursday, ahead of a G20 summit in Brazil where taxing the super-rich tops the agenda.
Despite this windfall, taxes on the rich had plummeted to historic lows, the NGO added, warning of obscene levels of inequality with the rest of the world left to scrap for crumbs.
Brazil has made international cooperation on taxing the super-rich a priority of its presidency of the G20, a group of countries representing 80 percent of the world's GDP.
At this week's summit in Rio de Janeiro, the group's finance ministers are expected to make progress on ways to raise levies on the ultra-wealthy and prevent billionaires from dodging tax systems.
The initiative involves determining methodologies to tax billionaires and other high-income earners.
The proposal is due to be fiercely debated at the summit on Thursday and Friday, with France, Spain, South Africa, Colombia and the African Union in favour, but the United States firmly against.
Oxfam dubbed it a real litmus test for G20 governments, urging them to implement an annual net wealth tax of at least eight percent on the extreme wealth of the super-rich.
Momentum to increase taxes on the super-rich is undeniable, said Oxfam International's head of inequality policy, Max Lawson.
Do they have the political will to strike a global standard that puts the needs of the many before the greed of an elite few?
Oxfam said that the $42 trillion figure was nearly 36 times more than the wealth accumulated by the poorer half of the world's population.
Despite this, billionaires have been paying a tax rate equivalent to less than 0.5 percent of their wealth across the globe, the NGO said.
Nearly four out of five of the world's billionaires call a G20 nation home, Oxfam noted.