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A new report, funded by the european union, has found that the worlds super rich are still able to pay low rates of tax, despite a decade of efforts to reduce evasion. The study says there are still too many loopholes and billionaires are able to pay less than half a percent of their wealth. The eu tax observatory, which is behind the report, is calling for a new global minimum tax on billionaires saying that if the richest 3000 people in the world paid 2 , then it would raise 250 billion a year. Lets speak now to one of the reports authors quentin parrinello, Senior Advisor at the eu Tax 0bservatory . What more can you tell us about what this report is calling for and whether its feasible . In this report we are trying to target tax evasion and mistakes have happened in the last decade in terms of tax evasion. Mainly focusing on the taxation of billionaires. We are asking ....