Relevant if you are talking about clickbait titles.
Capital gains are taxed at 20% at realization.
Tha articles (the site) makes the claim (by linking to an article on the same site) that capital gains are not counted as income. Yes, duh, because it counts as income when you close the position, sell the bond/stock/derivative/instrument/company/asset/capital and so on.
Surprise, surprise, dividends, (bond) coupon payments, interest and other yearly direct monetary (cash) payments do count as income.
Capital gains are taxed at 20% at realization.
Tha articles (the site) makes the claim (by linking to an article on the same site) that capital gains are not counted as income. Yes, duh, because it counts as income when you close the position, sell the bond/stock/derivative/instrument/company/asset/capital and so on.
Surprise, surprise, dividends, (bond) coupon payments, interest and other yearly direct monetary (cash) payments do count as income.
And "some" economists don't ignore it: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51361 (neither did Piketty as far as I can tell)