“Let’s go on the taxes of senior inheritance.” Guest, Tuesday, September 16, TF1, Laurent Saint Martin, a resignation minister in charge of foreign trade, asked the Socialist Party to work in an “intelligent commitment” on the taxes of the “very high inheritance.”
“Yes, the difference in income and assets since the crises have worsened, and therefore there is a dialogue requires, but of interest, in particular with the Socialist Party,” said the minister, asked about Zucman’s tax, that the left and several economists recommend establishing.
This tax, proposed by the economist Gabriel Zucman, offers to tax heritage up to 100 million euros up to 2%. It could bring up to 20 billion euros, which would reduce the public deficit, but employers and the law reject it.
Favorable to a contribution of the very high inheritance
It is not favorable to the application of Zucman’s tax, Laurent Saint Martin, however, a commitment to the Socialist Party, while the Government seeks allies in the National Assembly.
“If we stay in dogmatism on both sides, we will not have a commitment, we must completely change the software,” he estimates that the minister, who asks “to work” to an intelligent commitment, which makes it possible to correct inequalities, without making the attraction of our country lose. ” “We will find ourselves in this observation with the Socialists,” he said.
Instead of Zucman’s tax, Laurent Saint Martin, therefore, proposes “to prevent tax optimization too large about very high income.” “When I was a year ago, I proposed the differentiated contribution on high income, we can do it in a very high inheritance,” he suggests.
Therefore, the Minister of Foreign Trade wishes to avoid “fleeing capital.” “We have not attracted investments and employment in our country by increasing taxes, but rather lowering them, and that, I know that the socialists understand it,” he concludes, in the final call of the foot.
Source: BFM TV
