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We won’t need an extra enforcement plank, the tax itself creates administrability
Saez 19, Professor @ University of California, Berkeley, with Gabriel Zucman, Professor @ University of California, Berkeley (Emmanuel, “Progressive Wealth Taxation,” Brookings, https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Saez-Zucman_conference-draft.pdf)//BB
A wealth tax to measure wealth better. A well enforced wealth tax on a comprehensive base would create the ideal administrative data to measure wealth. The situation is not unlike before the start of the income tax in 1913. There were some estimates then of how much revenue an income tax would bring but these estimates were imprecise. The development of the income tax created a crucial tool to measure the concentration of income in the United States.
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