Inheritance rights are the surprise guest of the presidential campaign.
All the candidates went there with their proposal to reform them.
On the right, the idea is to reduce their taxation.
On the left, we defend reductions in favor of low-income households while taxing the rich more.
“For some, inheritance tax is an effective tool to fight against the concentration of wealth, through redistributive taxation.
For the others, this taxation is confiscatory and could prevent the circulation of heritage within society and between generations”
, deciphers Victor Poirier, specialist in public finance issues at the Institut Montaigne.
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In the middle, Emmanuel Macron wants to lower the allowances for transmissions to children as well as between brothers and sisters and between uncles / aunts and nephews / nieces (see below).
The goal?
Remove inheritance tax for 95% of French people, like Valérie Pécresse.
“Five years ago, a lot of…
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