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  2. Capital gains tax

Capital gains tax

  • Taxing capital

Counter-claim

One conclusion implied by a 1996 study of the state of the EU's internal market is that there has been a deliberate but self-defeating "Dutch-auction" among European countries – designed to attract international investment by reducing taxation on capital to a level lower than all the other countries, thus starving national governments of income and increasing fiscal deficits.

Aggravates

Reduces

Strategy

Value

Overtax
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SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Subject
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Language
English
Last update
Dec 3, 2024