Currently the wealthy can borrow against their stock and other investments.

    They do not pay tax on this.

    Imagine we put in place a new law: If you’re using your shares as collateral to buy something, you are taxed as though it’s cash. Those are now “committed shares “ And can either be sold or kept—but cannot be used as collateral in a new lending relationship. 

    Say I have 400m in MSFT(as one does)

    I use that as collateral to get a loan to buy Twitter. The lender now needs to alert the IRS that a taxable event occurred for my shares.

    What would this do to our economy? To society?

    What would be the impact if assets which were used as collateral in a loan were taxed as cash?
    byu/GrapeAyp inAskEconomics



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