The case made less noise than the fiscal exile of Gérard Depardieu in Belgium in 2012. However, actor Christian Clavier made approximately the same approach, the same year, and for the same reasons: escape from the French tax and the promise of François Hollande to tax 75% of the income of more than one million euros.
But the Fiscal Administration claims today the sum of 323,644 euros of the 2012 ISF of the former Bronzee, questioning its state of British fiscal resident that year. This is confirmed by the Paris Court of Appeals on May 12, in a sentence revealed by those informed and consulted by BFMTV.com this Thursday. A recovery that the actor tries, without success until now, to have canceled.
However, the actor sold his apartment in the seventh district in Paris in June 2012, bought shortly after, a house in London, and transferred 4 million financial investments in Belgium, which brings together part of the conditions to be considered as resident abroad. But Taxman has doubts that most of his time has really passed in the United Kingdom. In fact, it is necessary to have passed more than half of the year abroad.
“It is not absolutely a tax exile”
Asked at that time by the media about this exile in London, the actor has always denied any desire to escape the French tax. In October 2012, his agent Alexandra Schamis supported AFP: “It is not absolutely a tax exile: Great Britain is not at all a favorable destination.” No, Christian Clavier would have been “bruised by the poor welcome of his last film. But these criticisms exceeded the artistic framework. It is the objective of systematic attacks for their friendship with Nicolas Sarkozy.”
Christian Clavier, he adds, “felt a fed up, especially because his relatives also suffered the situation. His provisional installation in London is also motivated by a concern for personal and family welfare.”
With other media, such as Le Figaro in 2013, Europe 1 or Le Parisien in 2014, the actor also trusts his need for tranquility against “media violence” he would suffer in France and the “very pleasant” life that would lead to London.
Despite the actor’s claims, the evidence of his non -residence in London accumulates, as those informed still evoke. Film filming The teachers In France, the rent of a “foot to land” Parisino for a period of three years, the telephone and EDF invoices … the elements that show that Christian Clavier really was in Paris. Especially because the fiscal administration also gathered evidence that the actor’s family, his partner and the two children of the latter, were also in France.
After losing the appeal, Christian Clavier still has the opportunity to appeal to the cassation.
Source: BFM TV
