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Inheritance tax in the crosshairs of the French

2022-01-14T05:29:40.582Z


DECRYPTION - The state has chosen to punish the rich by capturing half of their heritage when they die. This does not bring them back to France, the only country to practice this level of taxation. And, in addition, the French are against it.


Are you for or against inheritance?

The subject was invited into the campaign, via the left as well as the right.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon wants

"to take everything beyond 12 million euros",

Éric Zemmour wants to abolish inheritance tax, Valérie Pécresse wants to return to the possibility that Nicolas Sarkozy had created to give 100,000 every ten years euros - François Hollande had increased the interval to every fifteen years.

In the center, LREM, close to the Macronian vision of 2017, wants a hardening.

But Emmanuel Macron, who does not want to alienate the right-wing electorate, has ruled out any increase.

He even acknowledged that there was a problem with

“the popular transmission”.

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“Why it would be a serious mistake to abolish inheritance”

Indeed.

France begins to tax heritage from 8,700 euros, up to 5%!

Then, the rates go up to 45% beyond 1,805,677 euros.

The contrast is staggering with its neighbours, whether it is the rate of 4% practiced by Italy for all assets combined or that of 15% between 600,000 and…

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Source: lefigaro

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