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The blues of tax exiles, confined beyond borders

2020-12-11T22:06:25.480Z


INVESTIGATION - We can hardly pity them but, with the confinement, the wealthy French living in Belgium, Italy, Switzerland or the United Kingdom have felt the weight of remoteness. Confidences.


"I'm afraid my mother will die,"

V. confides one Sunday evening in the half-light of a rue de Neuilly.

If that happens when I am in France, they will assassinate me! ”

continues this pretty thirty-something.

The

“they”

does not designate a formidable mafia but the agents of Bercy.

To escape the 45% inheritance tax imposed on the death of her mother, heir to an industrial company, V. is preparing to move with her husband and their school children.

"Going to Brussels will be difficult: I will have the impression of finding a provincial town, she

laments,

but we have no choice."

It was calculated quickly: in Belgium, the inheritance of a family business is not taxed, provided that the beneficiaries continue the activity.

A berlin wall

In addition, the holders of fortunes can make donations-shares or movable property to their children, for amounts much higher than those granted in France, which are taxed at only 3%.

So many attractive arrangements that explain the craze

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Source: lefigaro

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