A small car would then be a solution, right?
I mean, riding in a car that would allow you to see a small kid near your wheels, not on a tank-sized SUV. It should very much work?

This particular news item is specifically for giant, unecological, mean killing machines.

Waarom antwoord je in het Engels?

Because it’s one of the two official languages here? E.g. the channel’s About section is in Dutch and English: https://feddit.nl/c/thenetherlands
English is not my mother tongue either by the way; I’ve learned.

bestaat juist niet in Nederland. Het consumentenbond is met me eens

Apologies. At least for 2025, it seems that you pay the lowest between the actual return or the notional return. https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/en/income-in-box-3/content/box-3-provisional-assessment-2025

For 2024, I think there was only the option to pay a percentage of your wealth (notional a.k.a. fictious return). That’s what I had when I was filling my tax declaration at least. And it’s also on belastingdienst: https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/en/income-in-box-3/content/income-box-3-on-2024-provisional-assessment

Dus op de 2% die jij dacht te moeten betalen betaal je eigenlijk 36% (0.02 x 0.36).

Small correction here. If we take 2024 as an example, then 6.04% is your fictious income, and you pay 36% of that as taxes, so the actual tax is 6.04 * 0.36 = 2.1744%. In other words, if you want to multiply 36% by something, it should be 6.04% not the “result” of around 2% that I’ve mentioned.

That aside, it’s quite sad to me that you have to pay the LOWEST of the two amounts now (and maybe retrospectively even 2024). That seems to favor already rich people even more. That’s not how it should be… I wonder if addressing this is in any of the political parties’ programs?

Huh? It’s literally wealth tax. Your total wealth is taken in, then an assumed profit is calculated by taking a fixed percentage of wealth, to get the value of your tax. It’s approximately 2%. So if your total worth previous year was 1 million and now it is 1 million, you pay 2% of 1 million = 20’000 EUR tax.

By comparison, Germany has “profits” tax. Whatever your wealth, if you haven’t sold anything in a year, you pay 0 tax. If you have sold something, then you pay a percentage of your “win” (difference between purchase price and sell price).

Only one remark besides the other comment by @oktoberpaard. (And sorry for the English comment)

Als Duitsland weer het land invalt

I hope you meant “if a nazi country” or “if another fascist-Germany-like country”.