THE QUESTION
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Well known for his positions in the security field, the candidate for the LR primary Eric Ciotti has worked on his economic program for the presidential election and proposes five shock measures in fiscal matters.
In addition to the abolition of inheritance and gift
tax
, qualified as "
death tax
"
,
he advocates the exemption of gift tax up to 150,000 euros between grandparents and grandchildren, the exit of the main residence of the IFI framework, exemption from real estate capital gains after 10 years instead of 15 years.
Above all, Eric Ciotti proposes to replace the progressive income tax by a "flat tax" at the single rate of 15%.
To read also Éric Ciotti: "I defend a project of rupture"
“
We have to get out of this fiscal stunner which strikes the French and particularly a category of French.
We can no longer stay in a system where 10% of people pay 70% of the tax
, explains
the deputy LR
to
Le Figaro
.
The current situation becomes confiscatory and unproductive because it leads to strategies of leisure / work arbitration - what is the point of working more if everything goes into taxes - or tax optimization, which are harmful to the economy.
I would like us to have a tax which contributes to the financing of public expenditure but does not prevent the creation of wealth
”.
Is the candidate's diagnosis correct?
And is adopting a flat tax of 15% possible and desirable?
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