“You are here in a country at the forefront of creativity in terms of taxes”: Emmanuel Macron joked on Thursday about the heavy French tax burden, advocating the “internationalization” of taxes.
During a debate at the summit on the global financial system that he is organizing in Paris, the French president rebounded on calls for new international taxes to finance the fight against global warming and against poverty.
“Sometimes we feel a little lonely”
In France, “we are number two globally in terms of levels” of mandatory levies, he said. “And yet we have an airline tax, we have a financial transaction tax. We have implemented both,” he added, lamenting that the rest of the world has not followed through, despite years of debate in favor of these taxes.
“I am a great supporter of the internationalization of these taxes, because it would reduce my problems,” added the head of state, who has made a political commitment not to increase and even to reduce French taxes, and has earned the nickname “president of the rich” for having partially abolished, during his first term, the solidarity tax on wealth.
Source: BFM TV
