I remember catching a rerun of the old Dennis the Menace, the live action one from 1959 through the early 60s, and as I recall, the tax collector came to their house and started taking stock of everything like their furniture or any other thing of value. Is that actually something that happens or some older practice that's about to be brought back? I've never seen anything like that in real life.
It happens in france, and it's certainly not unique to france. When you're over indebted, on your own name (not your company's name), and didn't go through over-indebtedness procedure soon enough, they take everything you have that isn't pinned to a wall.Also they let you keep the table, chairs, and the bed stuffs like that. I think they take the couch too, eventually, and the tv of course
Also this https://finance.yahoo.com/news/europe-proposes-mass-confiscation-private-153854070.html Europe Proposes Mass Confiscation of Private Assets March 14, 2014
I just tracked down the episode and I guess I misremembered exactly what was going on. A guy wanted to have his property reassessed for the purposes of getting lower taxes, but he changed out his furniture and things to get a lower number. I still don't remember that stuff being a factor, even for property taxes.
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