"Earl Evleth" a écrit dans le message de news:
C1FB9D84.D1436%evleth@wanadoo.fr...
> On 16/02/07 14:12, in article
> 1171631574.719366.214480@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com,
> "justforpostings@iprolink.ch" wrote:
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>> On 15 Feb., 20:16, poldy wrote:
>>> Seems alarmist and pro-big business, which is what you'd expect from the
>>> FT.
>>>
>>> What was this "crisis" when Mitterand first took over? Was there a
>>> crisis under Jospin too?
>>>
>>> You figure the rich French who wanted to avoid high taxes would have
>>> fled the country a long time ago, to London, Monaco, the US, etc.
>>
>> O.T. and in addition kind of non-sense regarding
>> Monaco: as a result of De Gaulle blocking borders
>> to Monaco, the "convention franco-monegasse
>> de ... 1963" prohibits all income-tax privileges for
>> French citizens moving to Monaco
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>> Rich French nationals move to Switzerland, just
>> rich Swiss or other non-French nationals move to
>> Monaco for tax-reasons.
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> Johnny Hallyday is dodging this by taking Belgium nationality
> (his father was born there) and later moving to Monaco.
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> A number of very wealthy French have left with their money
> because of the wealth tax, and taxes in general. However
> the lower level "rich" have not left.
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> Moreover, the wealth tax threshold is sufficiently low (just over 700,000
> euros) that real estate price increases in Paris has moved
> a number of residents into the class of being "rich" without
> their feeling that way, except on paper. They don't get a
> revenue from their personal residence, so any taxes
> paid come out of other revenue sources. The newspapers
> had some examples of retired farmers on the Isle de Ré, whose
> property has gone out of sight, being classed as rich, with
> pension incomes of a 1000 euros a month!
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> The other oddities of the tax the rich law is that one's
> art collection (I have none!) is not taxed. So somebody
> could have 50 million euros in art and not pay tax.
> Reason for the exclusion: the paintings would
> get smuggled out of the country. Antiques also
> are not taxable.
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