Dev quits EU over AI productivity taxes, says Italy exit tax costs him €70k
RachelVT42 · x · 2026-11-05
A developer announces he's leaving the EU for Canada, citing claimed tax burdens: Germany taxing AI productivity, France taxing internet traffic (€3.13 per Netflix show), and Italy's exit tax — he says paying €70k to leave instead of buying his mom a house, on top of 40% business taxes. Core gripe: "the EU produces 0 AI models yet squeezes the hardest taxes out of me." The reposter calls the exit tax "pretty brutal" and mocks Europe for turning into China without the productivity, supply chains or frontier AI models.
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