Wealth tax and the fight against inequality: a response to the problems of the Italian tax system?

Wealth tax and the fight against inequality: a response to the problems of the Italian tax system?

Speakers Vincenzo Visco and Salvatore Morelli

Coordinated by Stefano Toso, professor of Public Finance at the University of Bologna

Event promoted by "Sinistra Universitaria" in collaboration with the “Walter Bigiavi” Library of Business & Economic.

Professor Vincenzo Visco’s speech will deal with the historical evolution of the Italian tax system up to its current structure, analyzing its main critical issues.Professor Salvatore Morelli’s speech will focus specifically on the wealth tax and possible approaches to reduce the concentration of assets, in particular the taxation of wealth transfers.

Vincenzo Visco has combined his academic career as a professor of Public Finance with a political activity that has seen him serve as Minister of Finance in various governments between 1993 and 2008; in this role, he promoted incisive reforms of the Italian tax system; he is among the founders of Nens-Nuova economia nuova società, an association founded in 2001 with the aim of "creating a center for studies, debates, research and publications, in which reformist culture can freely discuss, internally and externally, with other cultures, the economic and social changes that are taking place"

Salvatore Morelli is associate professor of Public Economics at the University of Rome Tre - Department of Law, and Senior Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality in New York, where he is director of the GC Wealth Project. He is a member of the Assembly of the Forum Disuguaglianze e Diversità, founded in 2018 with the aim of "designing public policies and collective actions that reduce inequalities, increase social justice and promote the full development of each person (diversity), and building consensus and commitment on them".

Stefano Toso is full professor of Public Economics at the University of Bologna; his research work focuses on inequality, anti-poverty policies and minimum income, income redistribution and tax-benefit policies.

Department of Economic Sciences, Room 1, Piazza Scaravilli, Bologna

Friday 14 MARCH 2025

6:15 PM

Event webpage: https://bigiavi.sba.unibo.it/agenda/tasse-disuguaglianze

Free admission