A Wealth Tax on the Super Rich Would Help Address India's Inequalities

In the sixth episode of ‘Budget 2025: What’s at Stake?’, renowned economist and professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Jayati Ghosh, talks about the ways in which previous budgets have cut down on welfare spending in the name of making government programmes more “effective”, while continuing to provide write-offs and tax breaks to large corporations.

If the 2025-26 Budget is keen to address socio-economic inequalities in India, introducing even a small wealth tax on the super rich would go a long way, she argues.

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