# Event Details - **Event Name**: Implications of a wealth tax in the UK - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 29 Jan, 2026 at 06:15 pm – Thu, 29 Jan, 2026 at 07:30 pm - **Event Description**: Could a wealth tax prompte capital flight?About this EventIn an era of rising inequality, cost-of-living crises, and weakened public services, a wealth tax could be a potential solution to collect revenue and redistribute resources. However, implementing a wealth tax can have potentially adverse consequences by prompting capital flight, and may also be unsustainable if implemented as a one-off policy. Our panel of experts will examine the some of the key issues around economic inequality in the UK, and the implications of a wealth tax as a potential solution.Meet the speakersWill Snell is Chief Executive of the Fairness Foundation. He is a non-profit entrepreneur with experience across a range of sectors, both in the UK and overseas, who is now focused on UK public policy related to inequality. Snell was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in October 2023. Dr Andy Summers is an Associate Professor of Law at the LSE Law School, and the Director of the Centre for Analysis of Taxation (CenTax), a research centre dedicated to improving public understanding of tax and helping to design a better tax system, through research that is academically rigorous and relevant to policymakers and the public. My research focuses on the evaluation and design of tax policies, particularly those affecting top earners and High Net Wealth Individuals (HNWIs).Chair: Professor Lucy Barnes is a Professor of Political Economy in the UCL Department of Political Science. Her recent work centres on the politics of progressive taxation, public opinion on austerity and fiscal policy, and how the economy is experienced and understood by voters and politicians. 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