One million rich people distributed in the six main countries of the European Union. Most of them live in the UK and Germany, while the country with the smallest number of Scrooges is Spain. This is what emerges from the data collected by Il Sole 24 Ore and processed by the European School of Advanced Tax Studies in Bologna.
United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Spain and Holland, all together, gather 336 million inhabitants. An enormous figure of which the super-rich represent, in percentage terms, 0,3%. There are many more poor people, i.e. citizens with an income equal to or less than 10 euros a year. There are 50 million, 15% of the total.
Speaking of individual countries, the nation that boasts the highest number of Scrooges is the United Kingdom: 217 people, 0,7% of British taxpayers. Of these, 5 thousand declare an income of more than 2 million pounds.
It's Italy? In Italy there are 78 taxpayers who exceed 200 euros, 0,2% of the total, while only 32 people declare more than 300 euros. Spain is worse than us: 10 taxpayers (0,05% of the total) over 200 euros, 5 people with an income of more than 600 euros.
Changing the parameter of analysis and relying on households, the "win" is instead Spain with 345 super-rich, 0,9% of the total with 15 households exceeding one million euros. In France the share drops to 0,4%.
By lowering the income parameter, according to the study published by Il Sole 24 Ore, 5,4 million taxpayers in the Netherlands declare an income of between 100 and 200 euros. “The audience rises to 0,8 of singles in Italy, 1,1 in Spain and 2,1% in Great Britain. While in France and Germany there are around half a million families that belong to this category”.
On the opposite side, that is to say, taxpayers with the lowest incomes, Italy excels; almost 13 million people earn between 0 and 10 thousand euros. In second place is Germany (28% of households).
