France advances a proposal to impose an 'unproductive' unrealized capital gains tax on cryptocurrency holdings exceeding €800,000

The French Senate is set to transform the Real Estate Wealth Tax into the 'Unproductive Wealth Tax,' which now includes a progressive unrealized gains tax on digital asset holdings, ranging from 0.5% to 1.5%, even if the assets remain unsold. The proposal also includes provisions to increase the capital gains tax from 30% to up to 37.2% in certain cases. It is currently awaiting a vote in the National Assembly.

Source: https://www.senat.fr/leg/tas24-039.html

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What about gold? Pokemon cards? Or are those "productive" now?

Same question

Art pieces, collectibles and antiquities are exempt. I made a post explaining the proposed law amendments

https://primal.net/e/note1ehxjuyhv26h0fyamwmxt38un0rldhf0v0kvw0nht8zfnkl40x0pq4mx9am

So NFTs are exempt? Who defines what art is?

art hanging on someones wall? LMAO

the absurdity gets more hysterical every second you let this play out in your brain

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Your daily reminder to take your bitcoin off exchanges

I don't think people realize enough that this is how Bitcoin may die. Not one sweeping action, but millions of little papercut laws that make it worthless to hold.

If the Bitcoin P2P economy doesn't take hold soon, the only on and offramps will be exchanges controlled and surveilled by big gov.

Build faster everyone!

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They are about to learn more about how unproductive their economy will be when people start leaving.

France is mind blowing with wealth tax. It pushes rich in their prime to become unproductive member of society and retire early as the incremental earning after tax becomes ridiculous.

Bitcoin - a tax collectors best friend. Great thing we do have a transparent ledger where the state can see how much everyone owns...

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And here we go... to Monero πŸ₯‚

I swear countries will tax you for anything nowadays.

Earned income? TAXED

Bought something using your income? TAXED

Paid off your home? TAXED

Died and left a large inheritance for your kids? TAXED

I swear, what's next? A tax on farting? When will the people who consent to these states realize they are nothing but revenue slaves for them?

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Is this even enforceable? Who would actually comply with this?

Who will forced to comply?

Everybody storing their BTC IOUs with a custodian (95% of people)

Everybody who KYC'ed their stack (98% of people)

Cypherpunk using Monero to store their wealth: Not affected.

Even if your entire stack is KYC it would make no sense to comply with this.

thats insane. what about lost coins? Stolen coins? how does one prove they dont have access? what if you bought some btc you bought when it was worth far less, now its worth millions and have done literally nothing with it. you pay a tax on that in perpetuity?

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Glad they banned "anonymity enhancing" privacy coins in France from custodisns.

How else would they enforce this nonsense.

β€œUnproductive” describes France perfectly.

Monero does not care.

Monero is above the law. It enwblrscdissent on a large scale.

It's the duty to disrespect unjust and nonsensical laws.