LinkedInJuly 2, 2026
Everyone argues about the wealth tax as if it were one tax. It is not. In 1990, 12 OECD countries taxed net wealth. The name survived. What it means splintered into 5 different taxes.
France, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands all show up on lists of countries with a wealth tax. None of them taxes the same thing.
One taxes only real estate. One aims two taxes at what you hold abroad. One taxes a single brokerage account, not the person. One taxes a return you may never have earned. Only a handful still tax your full net worth the way most people imagine.
I mapped the 5 machines in the carousel, one archetype per slide, each with the rate and the base that actually apply in 2026.
The lesson for anyone weighing a move. The headline rate tells you almost nothing. What decides your bill is which machine you are standing in, and what you happen to own.
Which of the 5 surprised you most, the one that taxes almost nothing you hold, or the one that taxes a profit you never made?
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Sourced from GeoCompass, the jurisdiction intelligence layer behind Lucky Nomads.
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