PURCHASING POWER: We’re laughing – Bruno Le Maire, doesn’t really put this option on the table The essential This Wednesday is a day of celebration for state finances: TVA is celebrating its 70th anniversary. By dint of coming across it on every street corner (and every expense), you may no longer realize it, but it […]
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TAXATION: The French, households as well as businesses, have paid more taxes than they have ever done for 30 years. The French, households as well as businesses, have paid more taxes than they have ever done for 30 years. Mandatory tax levies in 2022 reached 45.2% of GDP in 2022, i.e. 0.9 points more than in […]
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TAXATION: The taxation of US internet giants, such as Apple is a recurring issue of conflict between these companies and the French State Apple goes to checkout. The group paid 11.94 million euros to the French tax authorities, in addition to another payment of 576 million euros already made public last February, according to information from the Express / Expansion confirmed from […]
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INVESTMENT: The Minister of Public Accounts, Gerald Darmanin made a wakeup call Tuesday on the taxation of transactions in bitcoins in France … For fans of high-risk investments and promises of enormous gains with crytocurrency. While during the Bitcoin virtual currency flies, the French Ministry of Economy made a small development on Tuesday: “We must remember that if […]
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ECONOMY: According to “The Express,” Netflix, the US giant has paid 600,000 euros in taxes in France … Netflix turns its back on France. The video on-demand (VOD) platform is ready, according to L’Express , to close its Paris office and to transfer to the Netherlands, where taxation is less restrictive. This information has been confirmed by […]
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The taxation of diesel will increase by one cent per litre from 2016 … After years of heated debate, the government decided on Wednesday to start from next year to eliminate the tax advantage enjoyed by diesel fuel compared to petrol. Matignon has announced “the principle of reconciliation in 5 years between the price of […]
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Gérard Depardieu, who no longer lives in France, considering selling all the property he owns, he said in an interview with TV Magazine (group Le Figaro) published Friday. Gérard Depardieu, who no longer lives in France, considering selling all the property he owns, he said in an interview with TV Magazine (group Le Figaro) published […]
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SURVEY A large majority believes that the head of state announced this measure because he believes it “will promote him favourably to the electorate” … Nearly two in three French people (64%) say they are in favour with changing the way income taxes are collected by the withholding of income taxes direct at source, a […]
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Amazon announce it will declare its revenues … The American giant of the Amazon distribution will abandon its lower tax regime of Luxembourg, to declare income in the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy and France, according to a statement sent to AFP earlier today, Tuesday. The group will have to pay taxes in each country according […]
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New figures just released show that less than half of households paid income tax last year. Only 47.5% of households paid tax as opposed to 2013 when 52.3% paid. This is linked to a declining number of paying households overall despite numbers of actual households in France going up with 17.6million households paid income tax, […]
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