The Netherlands just introduced a 36% tax on

unrealized gains. And if you think this is just a Netherlands problem,

think again. Australia is on the chopping block, then New Zealand,

then the rest of the world. This is the most aggressive wealth

tax in modern history. And it's coming for your property, your

stocks, and especially your digital assets. Labor

has already tried to introduce this here on your super

fund, your retirement savings. It's been sidelined for

now, but they're not done. And when it passes, you'll

be forced to sell just to pay the tax bill. Now

in this video, I'm showing you how it works, why

Australia is next, and the three ways to protect yourself

before it's too late. All right, let's get the facts straight. I've

dug into Dutch media like NL Times, IMI

Daily, Deloitte Reports, and government statements. The

proposal is the Actual Return in Box 3 Act,

which passed the House of Representatives on February the 12th,

2026, just recently, with 93 out of 150 votes.

It's pending Senate approval, but if it goes through

and it does look likely, it'll kick on in January 1, 2028. Now,

what is it exactly? It's a flat 36% tax on

actual returns from box three assets. Now,

savings, investments like stocks, bonds, and cryptocurrencies, including

Bitcoin. But here's the killer. It includes unrealized gains

every year. So you mark to market your portfolio, value

it at the year end prices, and then pay 36% on the appreciation. Even

if you haven't sold a freaking sat, right, even

though it's not an asset at all. If your Bitcoin bag goes

to say, 10,000, and they're talking euros on

paper, you owe 3600 euros in

tax, and that's cash out of your pocket, no

sale needed. So it's not just crypto, it's

stocks, bonds too, but real estate and qualifying startup

shares get a pass with realized only

tax, right? So capital gains on the sale, the

gift, or immigration, or death. So

there's a small 1,800 euro tax-free annual

return per person, and losses can be carried forward. But

here's the uppercut, yeah? No refunds,

yeah? Now, what does that mean? It means if you were to actually

pay in that scenario, the 3600 euros

in tax for that year, but let's just say the next

financial year, your asset went down in value, and

you lost, let's say on paper, 20,000 euros. Guess

what? You can't come back to the tax office and say, well, my

asset has gone down in value. Can I get that $3,600 tax that I've paid

back, please? They'd be like, no. So it only works one

way. It only works in the sense of appreciation, you

pay the tax. But if your investment goes down, you

don't get a refund, nor do you pay tax. So the whole

thing is completely insane. So why

implement it? the old system tax deemed or

fictitious returns. Now, assuming a

fixed yield on your assets, regardless of reality, the

Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional multiple times,

calling it discriminatory because people pay

tax on these phantom gains during market dips. It

was bleeding the treasury to the tune of 2.3 billion euros

a year in refunds and lost revenue. This is

a rushed bridge solution to plug the hole while

they figure out a better realized gains system

later. Now, the government admits it's not ideal. Even

parties who voted said, yes, we want it replaced by

2028 or sooner. But the tax authority couldn't implement anything

else fast enough. So what do they expect to achieve or

gain? Revenue. That's what they want to achieve. Pure

and simple. Your money. They want to stabilize finances,

prevent leakage from the old flawed system, and look like

they're bringing in this fairer system by taxing actual

returns. But critics say it'll spark capital

flight, which is just people moving out of the country as fast

as possible. Investors dumping assets or fleeing to

low-tax spots like Portugal or Dubai. Dutch

media is buzzing with fury. Reddit threads call it

insane warning about a max exodus. And

the government's spinning it as temporary. Hey, we're just going to do this temporary. Don't worry

about it. With exemptions for startups amongst other things. But

for crypto hodlers, It's a liquidity nightmare.

You'll be having to do forced sales just to simply pay

tax. And then guess what? Because you've had to sell the asset to

pay the tax, it's going to trigger even more tax,

right? They gain short term cash, but lose long

term innovation and wealth. And here's the extra tyrannical twist

just for good measure. The Netherlands has an exit tax.

Yay! And that kicks in when you leave the

country. And this new Box 3 regime ties straight into

it. Under the current and proposed system, immigration

is a realisation event for capital gains

tax in Box 3. meaning if you move

abroad, they treat it as if it's sold and

you then have to pay tax on the unrealized gains again at

36%. So for certain assets like stocks and crypto under the growth track, you

might defer the tax over time, but often it's a lump sum or

stretch payment. So Dutch tax advisors like

KPMG, Deloitte and Muirburg warned

that high net worth folks are already immigrating to avoid

this. But the exit tax can hit hard, up

to 36% on unrealized gains at departure. Some

reports mention a potential five-year clawback or

monitoring period where if you immigrate and

later sell assets, the Netherlands could still claim tax

if ties remain or under a double-tax treaty.

Now, it's not a strict five-year exit tax like some

US-style expatriation rules, but the realisation on

immigration acts as an effective exit levy. And

the new laws Dual Track keeps the pressure on. If

you leave after 2028, boom. tax

on paper profits. Now, advisors say it's pushing people

to Dubai, Singapore, Portugal, Andorra. It's

designed to trap you in the system, pay up

or pay to leave. Now, this whole thing is straight up

absolute fear tyranny. Taxing unrealized gains

is theft, punishing you for holding wealth that grows before

you even benefit, like before you even sell it. It's big

government saying, We own a cut of your paper profits.

Pay up or sell. No other country does

this broadly. Now if you have wealth taxes, but

annual mark to market on crypto, rare as hen's teeth. Add

the exit trap and it's prison, stay and

get clipped yearly. Leave and get clipped on the way out. it

destroys the huddle ethos. So why stack

sats if the state raids your bag every single year?

Forces liquidity crunches, especially in volatile markets.

You're big up one year, you pay massive tax, then down

the next. They'll say, too bad, no refund. It's

control on steroids. Now governments hate

uncontrolled assets like Bitcoin, so they clip your wings with

the exit taxes too. Now in a downturn, you're

doubly screwed. Losses carried forward, but

you still paid on prior ups. And immigration costs

a fortune. So tyrannical as hell, right? It

erodes property rights, incentivizes evasion or exodus.

If I've got a massive bag of Bitcoin, I borrow against it

at say 10 to 15%. Who gives a shit, right?

When Bitcoin's mooning. But this tax forces

your hand, it destroys sovereignty. Let's crunch the numbers

on what this does to your Bitcoin stack. So say

you've got $100,000 AUD in Bitcoin today and

assuming a conservative 30% CAGR compound

annual growth rate over the next 20 years. So before tax,

simple compound growth, right? Future value of your $100,000 would

be $19 million. Yeah, that's right. $19 freaking

million. That's the power of holding on to

Bitcoin. After the Dutch tax, every year, you'd

pay 36% on the unrealized gains. So it's

year end value minus the start of year value. Assuming

you pay the tax from other sources, so this means you don't

sell your Bitcoin to keep you keep the Bitcoin intact, it

reduces your effective growth. But in reality, many

would have to sell portions of their Bitcoin, and this would compound

the loss. So modeled annually, you start

with, say, $100,000. Year one grows 30% to $130,000. Your gain is $30,000. Now tax is 36%, which equals $10,800 owed, paid

externally, like from your other sources of income. Year two, starts

at $130,000, no reduction since you paid

externally, right? So you're still holding that Bitcoin. It grows then

to $169,000. It was a $39,000 gain.

The tax, $14,000 that you've now got to

find from somewhere and so on and so forth. Now over 20 years

without selling any Bitcoin, you'd still end up with $19 million

because accumulated over time. But you've

paid out millions in tax along the way. The

total tax paid, ready? On this criminal

unrealized capital gains tax, you'd pay $6.8 million,

right? So that's all the taxes added up over that 20-year period

that you would owe the tax office. And you hadn't sold any Bitcoin. But

if you have to sell Bitcoin each and every year, what

does that look like? I'm telling you, it's brutal, right? It

reduces the principle of your Bitcoin over time. Let's

say you sell just enough. Each year after growth, you

sell a portion to cover the tax at the current price, right?

So effective growth drops significantly and you end

up with only, this is so bad, $3.5 million.

Yep, you heard it, slashed by over 80%. It's

absolute destruction. Now, luckily, not

just for Norwegians, but also for us Aussies, there

is a way that once you own Bitcoin, you don't have to sell it

to access liquidity. You can borrow against your Bitcoin without

ever selling it. You keep 100% of the upside, you avoid

capital gains tax here in Australia, and you get cash to

use however you want. I know it sounds too good to be true, but

I've personally used this tool to keep my stack working for

me without selling. It's through a platform called Ledin.

Now, if that sounds of interest to you, I've got a link in the description below,

so go and check it out. Okay, so back to it. Is

this a trend? Absolutely. Radical

socialists or left-leaning governments are eyeing unrealized

gains taxes to fund their spending sprees and redistribute

the wealth. It's envy politics at its best. Punish

the savers to feed the beast. Now examples, in

the US, Biden's 2023 budget proposed a

25% tax minimum on unrealized gains for

billionaires, which is over, they classified as

over $100 million in assets, right? It didn't pass, but

the Dems absolutely love it. Colombia has

a wealth tax that includes unrealized elements on net

assets. Spain's solidarity tax on

wealth, I just love that one, solidarity tax. They

have a tax on this wealth over 3 million euros and

it factors in unrealized valuations. Norway

taxes wealth with mark-to-market on shares. Even

the EU's pushing for harmonized wealth taxes.

Socialists see cryptos rise and want their cut before you

escape fiat. Why? Control dependency, fund

green scams, welfare bloat, right? If

you're stacking sats, this trend's an absolute red flag.

Bitcoin's borderless, but taxes aren't. So

guys, closer to home, the Australian Labor government

tried this rubbish with Division 296 on

your super, which is taxing unrealized gains over $3 million

balances and an extra 15%. They backflipped

after backlash. They scrapped this unrealized gain portion, delayed

to a 2026, tiered rates, but if they

had their way, They'd roll this out to

assets outside Super 2. This is in their

DNA. They hate people accumulating wealth.

Chalmers and Albanese love fairness spin,

and it's raiding your bag, right? Remember, they even brought

this tax in on unrealized gains on Super, and guess

who was exempt? The politicians, the bureaucrats, they

were exempt. They love it for other people, but they

hate it for themselves. Remember, they pressured

super funds for green housing investments. Next

step, unrealized tax on crypto property

gains. If I've moved my super, to

SMSF and all in on Bitcoin, this would have absolutely nuked

it. It's absolute garbage. This was the catalyst for

me even contemplating moving out of Australia. And that's why I've already

gone down the path of obtaining a Plan B citizenship

to get out of the tax grab that we're heading into

under this government. But you know what? We actually do

have a form of unrealized tax in Australia. It's

called land tax, and all states in Australia have

it, except for the Northern Territory. Now, it's an unimproved land

tax value. It's basically just purely a

tax on land. And you pay this every single year, even

if you haven't sold the land. It is absolutely a regressive unjust

tax. You may have heard about the recent Socialist Republic

of Victoria land tax hikes, right? Some government employee

just walks in and says, your land is worth hundreds

of thousands of dollars more because of a rezoning. And

instantly, you now have to pay tens of thousands of

dollars, if not more, to Victoria's state coffers.

It's a total basket case. Don't even get me started

on the CFMEU corruption going on down there. We're talking billions

and billions of dollars that are being siphoned under

this big, big time corruption that is happening right now,

not just in Victoria, it's happening right across Australia. So why does

Labor hate its citizens? I hear you ask. I'm asking the

same question all the time. Why would they do this? These socialist

grubs are driven by pure envy and control freakery.

They despise anyone getting ahead without big government's permission.

Hard workers stacking sats or properties, they're the enemy, right?

They want you to be dependent on handouts, voting for more

welfare slush. It's absolutely class warfare. tax

the rich, anyone with super over $3 million, right, to

fund union mates and green pipe dreams. Albanese's

mob cozies up with the bikies and the CFMEU scandals while

raiding your retirement. I mean, that's absolute hate

in the definition. They print fiat like mad, inflate away

savings, then tax unrealized to fix the

mess they made. And sovereign wealth? Nah. They

want you poor and compliant. And the Greens, even worse.

These eco-fascists would have you own nothing and

be happy straight out of the WEF playbook. Ban

and co. push wealth taxes, rent caps that

crush supply, migration floods, jacking costs.

Now if Greens ran the show, Bitcoin would be banned. They're

control addicts hating freedom. Vote them in.

Kiss sovereignty goodbye. You cannot vote for these socialists.

We've torched the Dutch unrealized tax nightmare, the

exit tax trap, its tyrannical grab, and

the Bitcoin destruction example. Global socialist

trends, Labor's sneaky push here, and why they

hate us. This is the fiat endgame.

Control your wealth before you use it. So to

wrap, we must avoid such taxes at

all costs, ensure Labor and the Greens are never

ever elected, and vote for sovereignty parties just

like One Nation who back crypto freedom. And

I get it, I hate to say this, but you really need a

plan B passport like immediately, like yesterday. Golden

visa in Portugal, citizenship in Paraguay or Vanuatu. If

these things get bad here, escape with your Bitcoin

wealth intact. Self-custody borderless. Guys,

you can see I'm absolutely passionate about these topics. I hate

the fact that we Australians are

just absolutely getting screwed. If you want to join me and talk more

about this, but also find the solutions to get around the

tax grabs and look at Plan Bs and sovereignty

outside of Australia, come and join me free at the Crypto Collective.

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into my own life. Now leave some comments below. Tell me,

do you love Labor's taxes or are you actually already

looking at plan B's to escape out of Australia's tyrannical

government and tax system? All right. Look forward to seeing you on the next episode. Take

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