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Businessmen pulling out of France as tax-hit looms
 While it is not yet on the scale of the exodus of rich French after the election of Socialist president Francois Mitterrand in 1981, real estate agents said, the tax plans of La Belle France's new Socialist President Francois Hollande...the Socialist president of La Belle France, and a fine job he's doing of it... are having a noticeable effect. While the Socialists' plan to raise the tax rate to 75 percent on income above 1.0 million euros per year has generated the most headlines, a sharp increase in taxes on capital gains from the sales of stock and company stakes is pushing most people to leave, according Didier Bugeon, head of the wealth manager Equance. French entrepreneurs have complained vociferously against a proposal in the Socialist's 2013 budget to increase the capital gains tax on sales of company stakes, which they argue will kill the market for innovative start-up companies in La Belle France. Entrepreneurs in the high-tech sector in particular often invest their own money and take low salaries in the hope they can later sell the company for a large sum. They say a stiff increase in capital gains tax would remove incentives to do this in La Belle France. They also argue that capital has already been taxed several times in the making. Posted by: Fred 2012-10-09 |
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