Ich fand die norwegische Regierung immer brillant bei der Schaffung des Staatsfonds. Ich war überrascht, als ich von der Steuer auf nicht realisierte Gewinne erfuhr. Was denken Sie? Unterstützen Sie es oder sind Sie dagegen? Befürchten Sie, dass einige Ihrer Besten das Land verlassen und ihr Vermögen mitnehmen?
Norway Shrugged – Taxing Unrealized Capital Gains
byu/JohnnieReeder inNorway
Von JohnnieReeder
4 Comments
Wealthy people use unrealized capital gains to take out loans and avoid paying taxes. It’s a common trick used by US billionaires, too. I’m all for taxing unrealized gains as long as it’s only on gains you’ve taken out a loan on.
Otherwise, you’re basically getting penalized for holding stock.
The thing with these ultra wealthy people is that often, they’re more lucky than skilful, and if they leave, the real resources remain. If you truly believe in meritocracy then I understand how this can be concerning, but I do believe the reality of taxation on the rich is that more wealth will be fed back into the system and everyone will benefit, providing steps are taken to prevent the resources from being utilised by foreign entities. No one person matters that much to put it simply.
For it – 100 %
Taxation is a like balancing an equation. I see no reason to excempt aggregated wealth from the fyndig of the state. Concentrating wealth too much is harmful, as it keeps the assets out of the system. Much better to redusere the income tax, which gives ppl an extra incentive to work more (and produce more wealth)
Like everything else, taxation and government comes with a lot of complexity – but IMO this trickle-down-philosophy thingy is not really working for the greater good
If ppl get rich here and evade the country because of 1-2 % taxation on their excess wealth, they can screw themselves and their silly priorities somewhere else. Stable regulations and workforce are much more important to companies than this small tax designed to redistribute wealth
This conflates two different things. A captal gains tax on unrealised gains is a type of income tax. A wealth tax is a wealth tax. The two are not the same, at least not in the taxonomy of taxation. For one, a capital gains tax is only assessed once for a given taxable event, while a wealth tax is assessed periodically.
Norway does have a wealth tax. Norway does not currently tax unrealised capital gains *generally*. Unrealised capital gains may be taxed upon tax emigration from Norway, the so-called exit-tax.
Comments and criticism of the wealth tax are generally not well informed – very few people actually know much about the valuation principles behind wealth taxation. There are internal inconsistencies – like how non-listed stock is valued as a proportion of assets minus liabilities in the company, which is never the same as fair market value, while FMV is supposed to be the general rule for assessing wealth tax.