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The value of those illiquid things will go down and you'll get less tax for them all. Which tax will you increase when there is a revenue shortfall?

If a rich person owns properties worth 100 million GBP, or even a regular person owns a 100k GBP house at the start of this tax scheme, the value will go down because tax is essentially writing off 4% a year. Economics already covers topics like this - see discount rate and net present value. Heck there is even a Black-Scholes formula for how to value things in these kind of scenarios. And people with liquid assets can move them out of the country.

You talk of economic migrants, but remember that they need to actually have the money in the first place to buy things. And since others would be reluctant to make investments (eg factories) or savings (which provide loans) it would reduce the overall amount of work available.



So currently £340bn of tax is taken from people. At the moment it is all in the form of income taxes.

With my proposal, we allow people to keep vastly more income (and therefore spend more).

The intention is:

Low-middle class pay much less tax

Upper middle class pay about the same

HNWI pay more (which is universally accepted as more fair, but never instigated with effective policy)


We already have progressive tax rates which try to capture this.

The problem that is being struggled with is that HNWI don't have frequent taxable events, generally because they hold assets and make savings. However there is a perception they aren't providing value (which is mostly wrong).

Generally any scheme you come up with to get at them will also affect everyone else, and to a far greater degree since they have less money and diversity to start with. And the HNWI have far greater incentive to move their money and themselves, as well as pay people to work out how to retain their money. You can move to almost any country in the world by plonking down a lump sum as an "investment" or as savings. (eg see how Dotcom ended up living in New Zealand.)

The usual solution to this is to try tweaking the tax code, seeing what the effects are and repeating. However scumbag politicians and the people who vote for them distort that process, so it doesn't have the intended effect.

An actually representative democracy would be a good first step rather than tax rate changes. Watch this talk about the US - the UK pretty much follows behind a few years later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik1AK56FtVc




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