• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Makes me wonder what the numbers would be if we did tax brackets for capital property.

    Like with incomes there’s might be a standard deviation curve but people are considered at least diet rich in this country if they can afford to own a second home for whatever purpose.

    Going up to three properties I’m pretty sure makes viewing it based on percentile pointless.

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      10 months ago

      Not directly related to income tax, but I’m a big believer in having property taxed on an exponential scale. Start off quite low for your first property, a vacation home is still reasonable, but by the time you’re much past that it becomes completely unreasonable to keep buying properties. Add a hefty multiplier for empty units on top of that, and you’d go a long way to fixing the issue with property hoarding.

      E: sp

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      10 months ago

      What’s crazy is I pay around 45% income tax. And these people have their billions. How about anyone making less than 500k a year doesn’t get taxed, and those fuckers pay.

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        10 months ago

        The billionaires could have their tax attorneys make them look like they have no net income. It’s a complicated game. If you tax their wealth, they’ll just shift the ownership to a trust or corporation that they technically don’t control. And that’s assuming you could even find most of their wealth!

        Really I think the answer is we need to try them for crimes against humanity and forbid them from owning any assets.

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        10 months ago

        Rich people don’t keep their money in cash. It’s in assets - land, houses, businesses… They pay someone to figure out what they can write off. They also will know to the dime what the maximum amount they can donate and write off, distribute the wealth among family, and have access to all kinds of exotic financial instruments.