Capital gains taxes are criminal

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For real. 💯

Facts 🫡🐕

Yep. Saw an investment profile of someone close to me the other day. He invested 200 000 ZAR in some old mutual investment scheme about 24 years ago that was advertised at the time as a premium investment opportunity. He liquidated the investment recently which had a value of about 600 000 ZAR now (3 x over 24 years)

He'll have to pay about 100 000 ZAR in capital gains tax, even though he lost most of the purchasing power of the original investment, so technically made a loss, but because the zar lost like 80% of it's value to the dollar over that time it looks like a profit and now he gets taxed on it (and the dollar also lost value over that time)

Could have probably lived off the initial investment back then for at least 3 years and today he won't be able to live off that current value for even one year, but has to give like 22% of the "profit" to the government like wtf 😒

You win, get taxed. You lose, also get taxed

Taxes on gains but no compensation for losses🙃 . Nothing more to say

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Totally agree

Absolutely. Punishing success and productivity with capital gains taxes is like fining someone for being good at their job. It’s theft disguised as policy.

Slavery.🤢

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just like the rest of tax, "legalized" theft. it needs to stop, 40 years ago.

Imagine taking 100% of the risk in an investment and being forced to give away 15% of the profit to someone with no skin in the game 🤢

SO ARE ALL TAXES