Billionaire Tax Speech Acts Over Three Decades

Loaded with public statements on personal taxation from the hundred richest billionaires in democracies, covering a three-decade period. It includes data on wealth-based taxes such as top rate income tax, wealth tax, and inheritance tax. The data is drawn from business journalism, investigative journalism, and other open sources.

Use Cases

• Analyze the frequency and sentiment of billionaire statements on specific wealth-based taxes like wealth tax or capital gains tax.
• Track changes in tax speech acts, such as support for inheritance tax, across the three-decade time range.
• Compare tax-related commentary from billionaires across different democratic countries over time.
• Identify patterns in public statements about top rate income tax relative to other forms of personal taxation.

Strengths

• Covers a three-decade time period of tax speech data.
• Focuses on the hundred richest billionaires in democratic nations.
• Data is sourced from multiple open sources including business and investigative journalism.

Limitations

• The sample is limited to one hundred individuals, which may not be representative of broader billionaire populations.
• Data is derived from public statements, which may not reflect private opinions or actions.
• The specific column structure and data formats are unknown, complicating direct analysis.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Gathered from business journalism, investigative journalism, and other open sources.

Time Range

Three decades prior to the article's publication.

Freshness

Last updated in February 2026.

Geography

Billionaires living in democracies.