We see it everywhere. To counter that coronavirus disaster, governments are spending money like there's no tomorrow. Budget's deficit will rise to new heights, never seen before except during war times. In US and EU, debts are staggering. The Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank are printing money faster that I'm writing it. If you ask what's next, I'm afraid there's only one answer.
In most countries, governments will have no other choice but to raise taxes. They will have to be smart to avoid killing the economy, but they will need to bring more money to balance their budget (or more likely to reduce their operating deficit).
As I haven't paid any income tax since 1997, that's all right with me, but I urge all fellow Bitcoiners to organize themselves, and to plan ahead to avoid the worst...
Or could I be wrong? There will be no more taxes next year?
eventually you're right, but in the next 1-2 years i think governments will be primarily concerned about getting economic growth back on track. they won't want to hamper that growth with tax hikes.
the push to austerity will vary from country to country. the USA can print a few trillion dollars without anyone caring, hence the stark difference between american and european stimulus packages. high debt-to-GDP countries like greece, italy, and portugal are more urgent concerns.
then again, the november election could shake things up. if democrats take control of the senate and/or presidency, i could see them repealing trump's $1.5 trillion tax cut passed a couple years ago.
Probably, yes. After this pandemic, they will recover from its losses due to the covid-19 and they will surely make the taxes higher because of the huge budget that they've spent. People are really vulnerable especially those who don't have a budget for more than a month of quarantine because work are also suspended. The economy of the countries really dropped as soon as this pandemic is spreading in every part of the country, maybe because of the stock market that is really necessary to proceed. Don't tell me that some other countries are controlling their economy without any damaged, only China can do that and it is suspicious how they manipulated and maintain their economy when the covid-19 really originated from them.