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by amrocha 979 days ago
Renouncing citizenship is a taxable event. If they don't pay up then arrest them. It's literally that simple.
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If it’s that simple, do you care to list out all of the countries that do this?
No, I won't do a bunch of work because a stranger on the internet asked me to, but you can Google it yourself if you want.
It’s rhetorical. There are no successful wealth tax schemes.
Ok, then you're just wrong
No, there are no wealth tax schemes beyond property tax. It takes very little time into the implementation of a general wealth tax to realize it involves breaking up successful companies, which kills it in its place.
I disagree, there's plenty of ways of doing that without breaking up companies