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Taxation: encouraging small donations between generations, a tricky measure

2021-04-20T18:35:21.707Z


DECRYPTION - The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, pleaded the first for this device a few weeks ago. The idea is laudable, but not so simple.


Taxation is a balancing act, economic and political.

The reflection currently being carried out at Bercy on a measure that would encourage very small donations between generations is a good example.

The initial idea is laudable: it is a question of tax incentive the grandparents to give small sums of money to their grandchildren.

This would make it possible to release part of the abundant savings accumulated for more than a year, with successive confinements, to benefit a generation that needs it more and will consume this money.

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Only here, everything is not so simple.

The case is even tricky.

The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, who was the first to plead for this device a few weeks ago, may have felt it.

A fortnight ago, he indicated that this boost would only relate to

"a few thousand euros"

and

"on an ad hoc basis"

.

Since then, we have not heard

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Source: lefigaro

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