Most Danish voters oppose government plans to cut the top rate of income tax

Re:Most Danish voters oppose government plans to cut the top... by hanspeter on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @08:30AM (#12487520)

And I have never met one who did complain about taxes (I haven't asked about it either). The danish successful entrepreneur Morten Strunge recently entered the tax discussion saying that he did not think much about taxes and that current proposed tax reliefs would not make much difference to him.

I see myself as an entrepreneur and I am not complaining about taxes. In fact I have a hard time seeing taxes as something working particularly against entrepreneurs.

1) When you're an entrepreneur you keep your salary low and you re-invest the profit in your company. This will limit the amount of taxes you pay personally and in the company.

2) As an entrepreneur you likely have a dream about huge growth in the company and making a lot of money in the end. Why would you worry about having marginally less "lot of money" in the end?

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Re:Most Danish voters oppose government plans to cut the top... by ulrikmoe on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:34AM (#12488572)

How do you define "marginally less"? Open your eyes and look at the graph I posted.

Let me name the obvious few: Christensen and Fornais (Saxo Bank), Jesper Buch (Just Eat), Mads Peter Veiby (M1), Lars Tvede, Toke Kruse (billys), Martin Thorborg (Jubii/Amino/Dinero/Agera). They are all members of Liberal Alliance and all of them frequently advocate lower taxes. Janus Friis (Skype) fled the country to avoid taxes (nuff said). I have met at least 50 entrepreneurs who openly complained about the current level of taxation.

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Re:Most Danish voters oppose government plans to cut the top... by hanspeter on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @03:29AM (#12494801)

Using the numbers in the graph, if you make 1 billion you would have 580 mio. after taxes in Denmark and 720 mio. in UK. The difference is huge in absolute numbers but relatively it is not. I doubt that entrepreneurs would have any less drive or motivation to succeed because of this difference.

> Christensen and Fornais (Saxo Bank), Jesper Buch (Just Eat), Mads Peter Veiby (M1), Lars Tvede, Toke Kruse (billys), Martin Thorborg (Jubii/Amino/Dinero/Agera)

Most of these are liberalists who happens to be entrepreneurs. They also all belong to the commercial/business type of entrepreneurs.

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