If the predictions had been correct, since 2022 there would not be a single millionaire left in Norway. In 2021, the Labour Party (centre-left) of the current prime minister, Jonas Gahr Store, won the parliamentary elections and entered into a coalition government with the Centre Party. The new executive approved a reform of the formuesskatt, the wealth tax, which increased what the country's richest taxpayers pay.

I'm meeting more and more people who are opposed to paying taxes. Some, young people, say that with their meager earnings, they only need their taxes withheld; after all, they don't see many public services that benefit them in terms of benefits. Between pensions and healthcare, it seems everything goes to the elderly. It's also easy to see how many citizens and professionals continue with the "with or without a receipt" policy to lower service prices. Finally, I know many wealthy people who don't pay taxes (for me, this is the best definition of who is rich!), since they are rich enough to afford the complexities of tax engineering and the tax advisors who maintain it. And yet, they find it all worthwhile in terms of the savings they make by not paying taxes. And some who do pay taxes, however, complain bitterly when they see how others, more daring, opt for the safe route of tax evasion and avoidance and barely pay any taxes, just to slap down the compliant taxpayers by demonstrating that they aren't "smart enough."