yep, the comment above mentioned that [0]: > "They were asking me to pay taxes on money I didn't have," Payre said. "I had no choice but to leave the country."

yep, the comment above mentioned that [0]: > "They were asking me to pay taxes on money I didn't have," Payre said. "I had no choice but to leave the country." > 1997, he owned shares that were worth $110 million -- on paper. French tax authorities required Payre to pay a wealth tax of 2.2 percent on the shares, based on what the shares would have been worth had he sold them at the market's highest point. > But Payre said that he didn't have access to them because of stock market regulations that limited his ability to sell and that, in any case, a market dip had devalued the shares below that peak. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43394015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43394015