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by kleiba 354 days ago
Interestingly, the court order in question demanded that real estate should be taxed higher than the status quo - instead, the conservative government decided not to collect that tax at all any more.

Wikipedia claims that this decision was partly due to the max tax rate being at 53% at the time. Today, it has dropped to 42%, but for some strange reason, the wealth tax has never been reinstated.