• geissi@feddit.org
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    14 hours ago

    We do see this in reality sometimes.
    When a company leaves, they usually still own the buildings (assuming they didn’t just lease them). Typically they would try to sell them off. It’s not unheard of that a similar company picks up the location and hires back some of the staff.
    Think of one supermarket closing shop only for another to open in the same location.

    What happens if a company does not sell depends on the country.
    When companies left Russia, several stores were continued under new management and afaik some businesses were not sold off but seized. Whether the owners were reimbursed for that seizure I do not know.

    All that said, I want to repeat that businesses leave countries usually due to lack of profitability. It has no (rational) link to a personal wealth tax.