The head of the Bpifrance Public Investment Bank deplored a “History of French jealousy” on the “Tax of Zucman” in the heart of political debates. When asked about RMC this Wednesday morning, Nicolas Dufourcq virulently criticized the idea of imposing such a tax in France, evoking an “absurd thing.”
Nicolas Dufourcq estimated that Zucman’s tax, whose principle is to impose taxpayers every year whose fortune exceeds 100 million euros to 2%, was “a completely absurd thing”, but that he does not “arrive.” But “they panicked the entrepreneurs: they built their box and we explain that we will take 2% every year. Why not 3? Why not 4? This is incredible!”, Said the general manager of Bpifrance.
Pointing out that with Zucman’s tax, “everyone would pay paper [en actions, ndlr] Its 2%, “Nicolas Dufourcq observed:” It’s me, the BPIFRANCE will administer this document. “So tomorrow I will have 2% of the capital of LVMH, in 20 years 20%, 20% of the capital of Pinault-Privtemps-Redute [Kering, ndlr]20% of the free capital. It is delusional, he is actually a communist, how can we get out of enormities like that in France! “He continued.
“Hysterize the” political debate “
“These people are shooting France. We must help them (…) instead of telling them that they are going to click 2% of their fortune,” said Bpifrance Chief. He noted that “if we pilate everything about Bernard Arnault, finances 10 months of health insurance”, but that after “there is no more Arnault”.
For him, it is “a pure story of French jealousy, a hatred of the rich, which is supposedly the new noble”, remembering the modest origins of François Pinault or Xavier Niel.
“It was the French company that has succeeded, we should prepare statues,” he added. “In fact, there are fortunes that go through their personal expenses,” he said, “that is what you have to track, and that is what the Ministry of Finance, I think, works today.”
But there are also “many French who pass their personal expenses in costs,” he observed. “Look at the number that requires tickets in restaurants” to be reimbursed, according to him.
Source: BFM TV
