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Britain owns a record £13 trillion of wealth – a figure that has grown much faster than GDP in recent decades, while the share of tax collected from it has stayed the same. Given the huge fiscal pressures Britain faces in the coming years and decades, from an ageing population and rising health costs to falling home ownership and poor social mobility, is Britain’s under-taxation sustainable? What does the future hold, and the past teach us, about wealth taxation in Britain? Speakers John Muellbauer, Professor of Economics, Nuffield College, Oxford Charlotte Pickles, Capitalism Editor at Unherd Laura Gardiner, Principal Researcher at the Resolution Foundation Torsten Bell, Director of the Resolution Foundation