Energiedeskundige @remcodb zet de a.s. minister van SoZaWe D66'er Hans Vijlbrief neer als een bizarre dwaas. En zo is het maar net. De betonstorter heeft Nederland in een afhankelijkheidsrelatie gebracht wat betreft energiezekerheid, terwijl we bulken van het gas. Morgen staat Vijlbrief te glunderen op het koninklijk bordes.🙈
FINANCIËLE ZELFVERNIETIGING. 🚨 Buitenlandse media verbijsterd over Nederlandse belastingplannen!
36% taks op geld dat u niet heeft. Wall Street noemt het "zelfmoord", maar de NPO zwijgt. Ondernemers vluchten. Dit is pure diefstal! 💸📉🌍
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The Netherlands just screwed investors.
The Netherlands advanced a 36% tax on savings, equities, and crypto, including unrealized gains.
You can now be taxed on profits you haven’t taken.
Markets rise, you owe tax.
Markets crash, you still carried the risk.
That forces investors to sell assets just to pay the state.
It punishes long-term capital.
Distorts price discovery.
Signals hostility to wealth creation.
Capital is mobile.
When policy turns aggressive, money leaves.
What the Netherlands are doing with that 36% tax on unrealized gains, is the single most insane financial thing I have seen in a long time.
Sometimes I wonder if the EU is destroying itself on purpose, and why. You really cannot be that stupid.
Same thing with immigration. The entire continent is drowning in it and the problems that come with it, and the most recent solution from the EU is to open the floodgates from India.
You cannot explain this anymore.
The Netherlands is about to commit financial self-destruction. Their parliament just passed a 36% tax on unrealized gains for investments.
This will cause wealthy people to move to another tax jurisdiction. People will avoid launching a new business. Stock market investing will dry up.
There is too much downside risk, very little upside potential. The govt is confiscating most of the potential upside, but leaving the investor with the downside risk.
The politicians know this, they have discussed it and they are concerned about it. But they did it anyways to close a short term budget gap of roughly $2 billion. As with other countries that attempted a wealth tax, it will likely backfire and result in less tax collected after wealthy people leave.
The results will be so negative, the govt will reverse course within a few years. But by then the damage is already done.