Next stop, a global tax on the super-rich?. Marlene Engelhorn is in her early 30s, she is the heir to the billion-dollar fortune of the multinational BASF.
She stood in January at the Davos Forum asking political leaders to pay more taxes. to combat inequality. The number of billionaires is small, about 2,700 people, but their fortune is overwhelming. It grew by 7% between 2022 and 2023, to exceed 12 trillion dollars, almost 10 times the Spanish GDP.