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I feel like if you care about taxes on capital gains you are rich enough not to care about taxes on capital gains.

No, I'm not rich, I'm just an entrepreneur, so most of my income is from capital gains. And most (almost all) of my expenses is paying salaries and vendors.

So you have a business with no revenue that you fund through capital gains? I'm not sure I get the connection between the two.

With revenue of course, how else would I be able to pay the salaries and bills?

But I'm not going to move to a country if I know that every quarterly dividend would leave me with 25-50% less money on my bank account.

I wrote a snarkier reply originally, but a more tempered summary would be: I can't imagine really caring about this. You cannot take it with you.

If you want to comfortably retire, then one of the following is probably true:

1. you have a solid pension

2. you should care about capital gains taxes

3. you're REALLY rich and don't care.

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