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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent

MYSTERIOUS: Millionaires join davos protests demanding tax us now - What They Never Told You

A worker cleans a sign of the logo of the World Economic Forum ahead of the WEF annual meeting in Davos on Sunday.
A worker cleans a sign of the logo of the World Economic Forum ahead of the WEF annual meeting in Davos on Sunday. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

A group of millionaires have joined protests against the World Economic Forum gathering of the business and political elite in Davos, Switzerland, demanding that governments “tax us now” to tackle the burgeoning gulf between rich and poor.

The unlikely protesters, who describe themselves as “patriotic millionaires”, called on world leaders attending the annual conference on Sunday to immediately introduce fresh taxes on the wealthy in order to tackle the “cost of living scandal playing out in multiple nations around the world”.

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