“Siamo diventati pigri e compiacenti”: i pensionati svedesi spiegano come l’abolizione dell’imposta sul patrimonio ha cambiato il loro paese
https://theconversation.com/we-got-lazy-and-complacent-swedish-pensioners-explain-how-abolishing-the-wealth-tax-changed-their-country-272041
di Jojuj
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Scandi boomers of all people showing a sense of self-awareness and accountability?
The Arctic might be melting, but hell surely has frozen over.
Envy is a sin, and this is the most entitled article I have ever read
wtf is article talking about? Sweden still taxes wealth. it is not called a “wealth tax”, but any invested assets are taxed based on the total amount of investments. if that is not a wealth tax than idk what it is.
They changed the name, but wealth tax is alive an well in Sweden.
Way to go to illustrate an article about Swedish wealth tax with a British(?)-flagged yacht. That is not a very common sight around here.
The Swedish förmögenhetsskatt was 1.5% (later 0.75%) of all* taxable capital assets over 800 000 SEK. Before the tax was abolished they raised the lower limit for who had to pay.
( * = With many non-taxable exceptions.)
Add to property tax and it mostly impacted non-millionaires.
Similarly, Swedish inheritance tax was not targeting the big inheritances for the generationally wealthy, but all inheritances.
Thus why abolishing them was popular, and any attempt to reinstate them would have to be after enough time has passed that the memories of how it used to be have faded or rebranding after international standards have had time to perlocate.
Kinda misleading article. The truth is pretty simple; Today’s pensioners almost all had massive mortgages and were overexposed to the housing market a couple decades ago so they supported abolishing the property tax. Now that their mortgages are paid off and they’ve downsized to apartments (which never had to pay property taxes) they support reestablishing property taxes.
For Germany it’s basically the same. For all my life, they stopped collecting wealth tax, and for all my life this society has been steadily going downhill.