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And how would you fix wealth inequality, without causing capital flight.
Capital canβt flee. The money is all bound in assets. How you gonna move the houses out of Europe?
China doesnβt allow me to own 100M USD worth of assets and live abroad without paying any tax. Why do we?
You do pay taxes in the EU if you own assets in the EU.
China taxes quite a lot less than the EU I'm sure. Otherwise nobody would have built their factories there.
Edit: China taxes capital more it seems
In the European Union (EU), the share of labour taxes (including social contributions) in total tax revenues expanded in 2023 to 51.2%, while the share of capital tax revenues remained unchanged at 21.9%. This indicates that labour taxes contribute significantly more to the EU's total tax revenue compared to capital taxes.
In China, the effective tax rate (ETR) on capital rose from 10% to 30% between 1995 and 2018, while labour taxation also saw a slow but steady rise. However, specific figures on the proportion of tax revenue from capital versus labour in China are not provided in the search results.
For more detailed and precise information, it would be beneficial to consult the latest reports from organizations such as the OECD or national tax authorities.
https://www.beursgorilla.nl/Index-Koers/150176326/CHINA-Shanghai-Composite.aspx
But as you can see, the stock market since then has been quite dull
Edit2:
In the United States, corporate income taxes accounted for 6.5% of total U.S. tax revenue in 2022. This figure represents the portion of total tax revenue derived from taxing corporate profits, which is a form of capital income.
For more detailed and precise information, it would be beneficial to consult the latest reports from organizations such as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or the U.S. Treasury.
And the SP500 has been the desire of the world. The USA is 60% of a world ETF
The CCP is special. It's politicking very much takes it's people's happiness (or the people perceived happiness) into account.
Also While they do allow the whole weath inequality gap to increase, they very much control the wealthy, instead of having it the other way around.
Imo, other countries can learn a thing or two. For the CCP dudes, there's no next election cycle to start ramping up actual work that needs to be done to get them elected again. For them it's over, if they don't keep their people happy (content/fooled) and they're the only goddamn authoritarians that understand that. They understand this, so they keep a tight leash on every enterprise, bank and institution within the country and plan extensively.
That's what the governments need to do, let only the people's vote control them and not any money, lobbying, institution or rich person.
Facotries, houses and even companies can not be easily moved. Even something like a bank needs employees, with certain skills and those have value. You usually can not just move those to another country, unless something really drastic happens.
The other part is to organize. Something like the minimum company tax is a really good starting point. Most large countries have relativly high taxes anyway. The only reason tax heavens work is, because they have a tiny population and the few hundret jobs created by the paperwork are enough to support them. They could easily be bullied into having normal taxes.
Also keep in mind the EU has 1/5 of the global economy by itself.
USA has 6,5% tax on capital EU 20%.
We attract capital because we offer stability.
Taxing the shit out of their made investments does not offer stability. They'd stop putting in new investments.
We'd have decay.
USA is the capital of the world when it comes to capitalism. A world ETF market weighted gives you 60% USA. That's massive.
We pay for using that capital. We pay rent, we pay for groceries, we pay for gas. Everytime we pay something, somebody makes money. Tax them.
Why would they invest in your apartment if they have to pay taxes on it? Unless they can charge the tax to you as well.
You're going to need the public to build your apartment. And sadly, in Singapore where this is the case, rent is ridiculously high.
Lower revenues for residential property means lower prices for land. It means lower prices for buying houses and makes it cheaper for people to own their house or flat. If you are a developer that builds properties, you sell them to individual owners that live there instead of institutional investors like corporations or real estate funds. Wealth tax only applies for people that own big estates. When done well it does not apply to people that own their own property or rent out a few flats.
That way, super rich people that look for investment opportunities for their enormous wealth make less profit with real estate and move towards other assets. Land owners (who are usually really wealthy themselves) and large investors are the only losers here, and that's exactly the intention.