Only 75% Pah Amatuers!

[ZedBloke]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20691889
96% in the Wilson era now that's proper taxation, how dare they earn more than a shilling a week!

[emmie]

it's why they are leaving the burning ship. I see that some people have had a go at the actor Gerard Depardieu for daring to leave, because he would be paying 75 percent tax. I would leave too

[boxtops]

It would be nice to earn £1m a year....

[emmie]

sorry i didn't read the link, but did read this in my paper the other day. He hasn't moved far, just over the border into Belgium, i suspect he will stick two very Gallic fingers up at his critics.

[emmie]

it would but then see most of it disappear to the taxman, no fear.

[boxtops]

I'll move to Curacao, then.

[emmie]

or Belgium next door, seeing as how their taxation system is so punitive.

[emmie]

is not so punitive, oh dear...

[emmie]

hilarious really

Gerard Depardieu's move to Belgium to apparently avoid France's wealth taxes has been dubbed "pathetic" by the French Prime Minister.

PM Jean-Marc Ayrault criticised the actor's decision to buy a home in Belgium - which does not have a wealth tax - close to the border with France.

"Going just over the border, I find that fairly pathetic. Being a Frenchman means loving your country and helping it to get back on its feet," said Mr Ayrault on France 2 television.

[Zeuhl]

Politicians don't like people screwing up their ill-considered plans do they?

And yet the french establishment still maintains Andorra as a useful piggy bank

les hypocrites!

[emmie]

indeed les hypocrites, very very good. I made mention before that France will see an exodus of their nationals if they up their taxation to such a point, because that is what always happens. It happened here when taxation was at it's highest, those who were high earners scarpered. Not all but many.

[emmie]

like this

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/tax/9654465/Britains-taxes-among-highest-in-world-accountants-say.html

[Zeuhl]

Quite so em

let's increase our income to 75% of ..... nothing.

At least in the case of the uk evaders need to cross water and a cultural divide to move to Ireland, the USA or beyond.

For the French ... they move a mile over the border and live in French-Belgium
And from my understanding of the french from my time in the rural south, avoiding taxes is a way of life anyway

Who didn't see that coming? LOL

[emmie]

almost as good as our good friends the Greeks, do they come bearing gifts i wonder...

[ludwig]

What's shabby is singling him out for criticism. He's entitled to live where he likes for whatever reason he likes.

[emmie]

what is shabby is stinging people for 75 percent tax plus, then saying that anyone who moves is not a patriot, sacre bleu.

[sandyRoe]

To earn that big money Depardeau needs to hold the affection of the public. Admittedly, they don't pay 75% tax, but whatever rate they do pay, they can't up sticks and leave.

[sandyRoe]

And what would Depardeau do with the money he saves? Probably pee most of it down the aisles of aeroplanes.

[emmie]

so it's ok to pay 75 percent plus, otherwise you might spend it the way you would wish, or perhaps better to pay 40 percent and spend the rest in France, now they get dick all. Shame on them for calling a guy who has lived, worked and obviously spent his money in the country a non patriot, what a bunch of moronic socialists.

[youngmafbog]

The Lefties never get that pushing the tax rate up for the very wealthy will only result in them leaving. Next will be the businessmen, especially those who are international already.

And if Belgium raises the taxes there is always Lux. Nice little tax haven with loads of social benefits (paid for by us and the Germans).

Millipede/Balls take note, although I doubt you will you are so blinkered in your views.