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Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by kharann on Friday August 08, 2025 @05:42AM (#44835193)
Kinda makes it harder to attract foreign talent to Norwegian startups as it could affect their decision moving to Norway. While I think the number of people affected is exaggerated, the most well-known case would be the Dune Analytics founder who had to pay more in tax than his salary and was forced to either take a loan to pay taxes (no guarantee the company would succeed) or move out of the country.
Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by throw9349494 on Friday August 08, 2025 @06:54AM (#44835562)
This, and barnevernet has reputation similar to gestapo in East Europe.
Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by eqvinox on Friday August 08, 2025 @07:42AM (#44835882)
You might've mixed up your analogy there, Gestapo was a German 3rd Reich thing… NKVD would be the Soviet one.
Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by tmtvl on Friday August 08, 2025 @08:52AM (#44836415)
Or the Stasi (Staatssicherheit) for the DDR.
Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by throw9349494 on Friday August 08, 2025 @11:28AM (#44838185)
Germans (including gestapo) gassed a few million people here. Soviets (including NKVD) liberated survivors.

But maybe I read wrong history books.

Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by eqvinox on Friday August 08, 2025 @01:16PM (#44839411)
That wasn't what I meant, I'm confused why you're associating the Gestapo with Eastern Europe. They were active in all of German controlled Europe with a pretty bad reputation almost everywhere. The nazi mass murders also have more of an association with the SS rather than the Gestapo, especially when it got worse in the later years.

(FYI, the NKVD killed more than 100'000 Poles in a just a few months in 1941. I haven't found a total. But they were also active in all of the CCCP. Not sure what would be an Eastern Europe specific reference here…)