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Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by jiggunjer on Monday September 04, 2017 @01:08AM (#15165863)
In the Netherlands there is about 30% tax on financial returns and an additional 1.2% tax on assets (wealth) above a certain threshold.
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Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by sobani on Monday September 04, 2017 @06:05AM (#15167041)
The 1.2% tax on assets is the 30% tax on financial returns. It's just that at some point the government was like: "math is hard, let's go shopping^w^w assume the average return in 4%".
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