This is misleading. The 49.5% tax in the Netherlands is on income above €75,518. Billionaires rarely make the bulk of their money as income.

We don’t have a capital gains tax, instead there is a tax on capital that’s based on expected return on that capital. It’s about 1% on money in bank account and about 6% on stock and other investments.

Wow, this is just entirely wrong. Completely and utterly wrong.

Sweden has a maximum of around 55% income tax bracket if you're in a municipality with high income tax, but billionaires never are and as such would be taxed probably at most 50% income tax bracket.

This is of course entirely irrelevant because billionaires don't make their money on income. Sweden has fairly low capital gains taxes - 30% on regular accounts, and a special account that taxes the whole account value by a low percentage, which shakes out in average years to even lower taxes on capital. This assumes you even keep your capital in the country, which is a big if.

There's also no inheritance tax, no gift tax and no property tax. Sweden is actually an unusually good place to be a billionaire as far as taxation goes, and a below average place to earn a high salary as far as taxation goes.

Billionaires in Europe "evade" taxes just like every other billionaire. Most of their wealth is assets, which is why their tax rates don't seem right if you don't understand how economics works.

As others have pointed out, this is pretty disingenuous. Some (all?) of the others are quoting marginal tax rates

and the US stacks up nicely on this front, at least in progressive states: max federal marginal tax rate is 37%, with California having a 14.4% max marginal rate. So apples to apples, the US would be 51.4%.

The problem, obviously, is that nowhere in the world do billionaires make their money through "normal" income.

Wrong.
Those are income taxes for people with high salaries.

No billionaire earns the bulk of their money as taxable income. None of these countries tax billionaires the way the meme implies

No billionaire in Germany pays 47% income tax haha

Meanwhile in Hungary: if you're a large business, you pay less tax by percentage than small businesses and self-employed people.

UK:

"We hide your billionaires money"

What a country. In Sweden they tax the billionaires. In America, billionaires tax you!

We've been giving ours billions more dollars that we took from the plebs so they'll be nice to us

No they've never been nice to us, why do you ask?

blegh who needs free healthcare, education, worker's rights, and social services. i enjoy living check to check like 60% of Americans

I'm personally in favor of land value taxes, externality taxes, and natural resource severance taxes.

This means Swedish billionaires work harder than any other billionaires in the world to maintain their status as a billionaire. American billionaires are lazy.

We have a point where progressive taxation reverses and you get a refund

Start the head tax

And somehow there are still lots of loopholes.

One thing is to tax the rich, another thing entirely is to tax what they haven't got "gains" on.