Posted on 02/17/2026 5:40:02 PM PST by delta7
Dutch Lawmakers Approve a 36% Tax on Unrealized Crypto, Stock, and Bond Gains Starting January 2028, the Netherlands is set to require that residents pay tax on paper profits they have not yet cashed in, pending Senate approval.
The Dutch House of Representatives on Thursday voted to pass the Actual Return in Box 3 Act (Wet werkelijk rendement box 3), a reform that will tax residents at a flat rate of 36% on the actual returns they earn from savings and investments, effective January 1, 2028.
The bill replaces a system that taxed investment income based on assumed returns, a framework the Dutch Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional in a series of decisions beginning in December 2021.
Under the new regime, the tax applies not only to income that has actually been received, such as interest, dividends, and rent, but also to the annual increase in value of assets like stocks, bonds, and cryptocurrencies, even when those assets have not been sold.
If a Dutch resident holds a portfolio of shares that rises by €10,000 over the course of a year, the tax authority will treat that paper gain as taxable income, regardless of whether the investor has sold anything.
Real estate and shares in qualifying startups will follow different rules. For those assets, the government adopted a capital gains approach, meaning that tax on the appreciation of value is charged only when the asset is sold or otherwise disposed of. Regular income from these assets, such as rental payments or dividends, will still be taxed annually in the year it is received....
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You have one more to find.
More and more I have to thank the late Delaware Senator William Roth for his wonderful Roth accounts that he had the wisdom to have Congress authorize. I bet the Dutch people are not fortunate enough to have had a leader such as Senator Roth.
“Unbelievable”
Your friend, Potkaars, didn’t tell you?
“You provide very little to an opinion of anything.”
My opinion takes a backseat to my facts.
You have nothing to add to this forum.
Did you find mistake #2? I didn’t think so.
Only an investor with skin in the game would.
Such “tax unrealized gains” proposals are effectively property taxes.
Your vested interest becomes: You are land poor. That is a form of the government taking your land.
Pacific Palisades - the government arranges “land poor” followed by takings.
Large wealth real estate syndicates fund politicians . . . and eventually gain rights to development and income.
So, effectively, your capital is taken and moved into the hands of others who will fund socialism, in exchange for their profit and tax sheltering - NOTICE IN THE PROPOSAL, EXEMPTION FROM THE UNREALIZED GAINS TAX.
“You have nothing to add to this forum.”
And your big contribution was asking if I was gay!
“Only an investor with skin in the game would.”
I have described my investments here many times over the years. The last time was the day before silver crashed last month.
Actually earler today But not the actual stocks.
“This will force the sale of 36% of all imputed capital gains in order to pay. No capital market can withstand a 36% outflow of value without crashing the market. The liquidity does not exist.”
Not 36% but all of it.
That 36% comes around next year, and the next.
But it looks like their Senate has not approved.
“I don’t know his/her orientations but I do know that he/she can be annoying as hell.”
Only for those that post nonsense ...
That is much better.
Let us all see the market and what we think will happen.
You are in commodities, and that is a good place.
I have Gold from 2003. It just sits. 322 an Oz.
To tell someone they are paying a tax on the ups and downs of a corporation is not real.
Thanks
“To tell someone they are paying a tax on the ups and downs of a corporation is not real.”
I never did.
“You are in commodities, and that is a good place.”
Mostly stocks. Not so, commodities.
I still don’t understand why you came out of the blue to ask if I was gay.
No you did not.
That is the focus of this thread.
These bots must be on some sort of RSS feed.
Wow. It's happening in Europe now, for real.
Astonishing. Where will the Dutch run to?
Europe is looking more and more to me, with each passing day, like a plague ship coming into our harbor
There are no "unrealized gains" in deferred tax accounts because there is no cost basis for the purchases. The investments are taxed as ordinary income when they are sold and the cash is withdrawn.
Buying and selling within the tax-deferred accounts are not taxable events.
It's only after-tax assets that have a cost-basis and a realized or unrealized capital gain.
-PJ
That is beyond insane!
So everyone will have to sell their stocks to pay the taxes which will cause a huge crash of the market.
a forced sale at the same time by everyone in a country of enough financial assets to cover a 36% tax on all unrealized financial gains would instantly destroy the financial structures of a country, resulting in nothing but unrealized losses, so there would be no taxes gained from unrealized gains as there would be no gains. the only result would be unimaginable chaos resulting from the absence of functioning financial systems which would instantly destroy a functional country at every conceivable level.
Only a legislative body totally divorced from reality would ever attempt such a tax.
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