The Dutch government presented a new bill to the Parliament aimed at reforming the taxation system for income derived from assets, known as the ‘Actual Return on Investment in Box 3 Act.’ The bill regarding Box 3 introduces two main categories of taxation: capital growth tax and capital gains tax. Given recent changes to Dutch tax law, all individuals under the 30% ruling will lose their near-total exemption from taxes on substantial shareholdings (Box 2) and savings and investments (Box 3). If such individuals are Dutch tax residents, the changes to Box 3 under this bill will apply to them as well.
I’m just trying to get ahead of the inevitable propaganda that will inevitably act as if this will cause the end of civilization because it will disincentivize investors or some other dumb narrative.
It will definitely affect incentives, which is worth considering imo. With property taxes, there is some controversy, since someone can be forced to sell if their home value balloons past their income level, although it also has arguably positive effects like disincentivizing holding on to hoards of vancant properties and doing nothing with them.
I don’t really know exactly how it would go, but my first thought is people would sell stocks more readily and often, both because they need to in order to cover taxes, and because selling triggering capital gains wouldn’t be a thing to worry about anymore.
I’m just trying to get ahead of the inevitable propaganda that will inevitably act as if this will cause the end of civilization because it will disincentivize investors or some other dumb narrative.
It will definitely affect incentives, which is worth considering imo. With property taxes, there is some controversy, since someone can be forced to sell if their home value balloons past their income level, although it also has arguably positive effects like disincentivizing holding on to hoards of vancant properties and doing nothing with them.
I don’t really know exactly how it would go, but my first thought is people would sell stocks more readily and often, both because they need to in order to cover taxes, and because selling triggering capital gains wouldn’t be a thing to worry about anymore.