"Is California trying to tax retirement savings?" Not really.
Some billionaires in California are falsely pretending that the retirement savings of ordinary people will be taxed by a tax that only billionaires would have to pay:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/election/article/retirement-savings-tax-california-22212440.php #politics #taxation
Die FinanzKommission Gesundheit empfiehlt die Einführung einer Steuer auf Süßgetränke, um Krankheitskosten zu verringern und Steuereinnahmen für die Stützung der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung zu erschließen. Dies soll zur Stabilisierung der Krankenkassenbeiträge beitragen. Bei der politischen Entscheidung über die Einführung einer solchen Steuer spielt die wissenschaftliche Evidenz für ihre Wirksamkeit in der Prävention eine zentrale Rolle. Das vorliegende Papier ordnet diese wissenschaftlich ein. Die negativen gesundheitlichen Wirkungen eines regelmäßigen Konsums von Süßgetränken sind wissenschaftlich eindeutig belegt. Süßgetränkesteuern sind wirksame Instrumente, um den Süßgetränkekonsum und die Zuckeraufnahme aus Süßgetränken zu reduzieren. Eine zunehmende Anzahl an Studien zeigt direkt eine Verringerung oder eine Verlangsamung des Anstiegs von Übergewicht und Adipositas durch Süßgetränkesteuern. Aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht stellen Süßgetränkesteuern somit eine nachweislich wirksame Präventionsmaßnahme dar.
The UK's tax authorities (HMRC), required by the Govt. to do more to close the 'tax gap' between taxes expected & taxes *actually* paid, have begun to focus on VAT as a key area where firms (of all sizes) have (wilfully, mistakenly?) misinterpreted VAT criteria to their own advantage.
Certainly the rules are not simple, but the level of underpayment, revealed by HMRC data mining, has prompted a growing level of 'probes' into business accounts; The VAT-man is coming!
We do not need and should not have progressive property taxes. #PropertyTaxes are by their very nature progressive, to begin with, since you are taxed on the assessed value of the property. Wealthy people own the most property, and all the most expensive property.
What we need is to move property taxes away from taxing capital improvements and toward taxing unimproved land values only. That is the most progressive possible form of #taxation. #LVT #LandValueTax
New York’s Anti-Rich Current Reaches Crescendo With Second-Home Tax Plan
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/nyregion/new-york-inequality-second-home-tax.html
A small reminder:
#Taxes are used to create a beneficial environment for citizens.
Taxes collected primarily from corporate revenues are passed on to citizens via increased prices for goods and services.
Taxes collected primarily from citizens' income affect the citizenry disproportionately.
Taxes on land 'ownership' are primarily passed on to citizens who do not own land, and in increased prices for goods and services - that is, non-landowning citizens pay the largest share.
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1⏺️ Use Free Software / Open Source 💿 💾 📀 🖥️ 🧭 🐧
2⏺️ Don't pay bad people 🐍 🐊 😠 😈
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b) 💰 Avoid #Taxation / Pay cash
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