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Inheritance rights: “A French heritage”

2022-01-24T20:33:05.772Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Gaëtan de Capèle. Is this the first good news of the presidential election? To hear the promises of candidates likely to qualify for the second round (Valérie Pécresse, Marine Le Pen, Éric Zemmour), inheritance taxes should soon drop, if not disappear. Facing them, Emmanuel Macron, formerly in favor of increasing taxation on inheritances in the name of the fight against pensions, is now also thinking of reducing th


Is this the first good news of the presidential election? To hear the promises of candidates likely to qualify for the second round (Valérie Pécresse, Marine Le Pen, Éric Zemmour), inheritance taxes should soon drop, if not disappear. Facing them, Emmanuel Macron, formerly in favor of increasing taxation on inheritances in the name of the fight against pensions, is now also thinking of reducing them. Good for them. Because the French, themselves, decided the question a long time ago, not without reason. They find it hard to bear that the link of transmission between generations can be broken by the Public Treasury.Should we be surprised? The human mind is made in such a way that the prospect of paying a "death tax" to bequeath to one's descendants what one has managed to build throughout one's life is particularly difficult to accept. Especially when you've lived a life of paying taxes and dues on your work and...

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Source: lefigaro

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