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If you have wealth right now, you have two options: Sit on it Invest it Currently, if you invest it you are penalised by income and capital gains taxes in ex

• rogerbinns 14y ago
  With current schemes you are only "penalized" for capital gains when you actually have them. If you buy an item for $100, and sell it ten years later for $110 then you pay taxes on the difference. With your scheme you would have spent $40 in taxes in the mean time. Additionally with current schemes you can balance losses against gains (rules vary by country) and you aren't penalized for investing: eg money put into a factory doesn't incur taxes until it starts producing returns.
  • rayhano 14y ago
    Interesting. Would you also not have suffered massive real loss from inflation over ten years eroding your return?
    • rogerbinns 14y ago
      Depends on the item. For example a car or a house also provides utility which is value extracted and not a loss. Most items should appreciate in line with inflation, all else being equal - after all inflation doesn't change real values, just the digits used to express that value. And in this example if I sold it for $100 then no tax would be due at all under current schemes. In your case I still have paid $40 in taxes in addition to the losses from inflation.