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Total Tax Pressure Marginal Tax Rates VAT, in 36 countries 2001 Net Wealth Tax	Purchasing Power Taxation of Capital Gains More to come

Taxation of Capital Gains 1998

The Capital Gain is 5,800 Euros (further assumptions: see below).

	3 months (%)	2 years (%)	5 years (%)
Denmark	44	44	44
Sweden	30	30	30
Finland	29	29	29
Canada	26	26	26
France	26	26	26
Hungary	20	20	20
United States	32	20	20
Spain	37	20	20
Australia	32	16	16
Irelan	16	16	16
Norway	28	14	14
Italy	13	13	13
Iceland	10	10	10
Japan	2	2	2
Austria	41	0	0
Czech Republic	32	0	0
Germany	36	0	0
Luxembourg	16	0	0
Portugal	10	0	0
United Kingdom	0	0	0
Turkey	-	-	-
Belgium	-	-	-
Greece	-	-	-
Korea	-	-	-
Mexico	-	-	-
Netherlands	-	-	-
New Zealand	-	-	-
Poland	-	-	-
Switzerland	-	-	-

Source: The Swedish Shareholders’ Association.
Assumptions: The taxpayer is married without children,
spouse makes no transaction, no losses to offset capital
gains, yearly income 28,800 Euros (46,000 when filing
jointly), inflation rate 3%. The value of sold shares is set
to 11,500 Euros and the purchase value to 5,800 Euros;
real capital gain: 5,800 Euros.

World Taxpayers Associations
President Mr. Bjorn Tarras-Wahlberg
E-mail: BTW@worldtaxpayers.org
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