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Olivier Blanchard, Jean Pisani-Ferry and Gabriel Zucman: "We Share the Observation that a Tax Base on Big Fortunes Is the Most Effective in the Face of Fiscal Inequality"
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DECRYPTAGE - The Senate is considering on June 12 a proposal by the environmental group to further tax the wealth of the greatest fortunes. If adopted, which is unlikely, its critics believe that this tax would fuel tax exile and curb innovation.
Senators will examine the minimum tax on billionaire wealth on Thursday, June 12. The inspiration for this measure had responded to all the criticisms after the adoption of the text at the National Assembly in February.
While the "Zucman tax" will be discussed in the Senate this Thursday, the inspiration for the measure, supported by two renowned economists, is putting the honourable senators in that position.
TRIBUNE. The scheme targets the centimillionaires who put in place optimisation schemes to escape tax. It merely aligns our tax laws with the principle of equality before tax, plead the three economists in a forum in the "World", while the text will be examined by the Senate.
VIDEO - This tax, which will be voted on in the Senate on Thursday, provides a floor tax on the wealth of the richest taxpayers in France to ensure that they pay at least 2% of their wealth in tax. Gabriel Zucman was the guest of Apolline from 9 to 10.
The Senate is considering on Thursday the proposal for a law on the Zucman tax, which wants to fix a minimum tax of 2% on assets exceeding 100 million euros. "A law that simply brings our constitutional principle of equality before the tax into line", says its initiator, economist Gabriel Zucman, and which could "bring back 20 billion euros".
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