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Relax. Under the current system we already owe taxes on bitcoin, stocks, bonds and other assets each year even if nothing has been sold.

Its currently not solely based on changes in asset values, but on (a) assumed return percentages per asset class you invest in or (b) if you elect to do so, based on actual returns for your portfolio (incl. unrealised returns).

NL is a great country to live. Investors and non-investors alike know that. No need to get too dramatic about this.
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sister_sam 2d ago

Get very dramatic about this. That is pure thievery. I wouldn't want to live with people that consider such things okay.

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Menno Reitse Bouma 1d ago

Its a good thing we dont live together then 😂 I dont consider taxes thievery, just a contribution to pay for things we arrange collectively as a society. Sure we can debate what that contribution is spent on and how high it should be, but the principle is fine with me. But hey we can agree to disagree, no worries 🫶

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sister_sam 1d ago

We can arrange things voluntarily and do in a lot of areas that government hasn't yet claimed control of. Government is NOT the people. It is rulers. It is self-legalizing initialization of force. Precisely the opposite of cooperation.