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Re:The World's Dumbest Idea: Maximizing Shareholder Value [pdf] by ageek123 on Sunday December 07, 2014 @02:42AM (#8711583)
In many countries, capital gains are not taxed at all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax
Re:The World's Dumbest Idea: Maximizing Shareholder Value [pdf] by jrochkind1 on Sunday December 07, 2014 @01:17PM (#8713011)
I haven't actually counted it up from the wikipedia article, just skimmed, but looks like maybe mostly "developing"/"third world" countries? Which are desperate to attract capital investment, and usually not entirely in control of their own fiscal policies.