There are 18,525 of them. The figures are actually official. In 2024, some 18,525 households with property property of not less than €1.3 million paid no earnings tax. Even excluding individuals who don’t reside in France for tax functions and those that died throughout the 12 months, the variety of these very wealthy who escape widespread tax stays surprisingly excessive and raises questions: 13,335. This is what emerges from the newest paperwork despatched by the Ministry of the Economy and Finance to Claude Raynal (Socialist Party) and Jean-François Husson (Les Républicains), the 2 heads of the finance committee within the Senate.
Enough to bolster Eric Lombard’s current feedback. The former Minister of Economy and Finance of François Bayrou threw a wrench within the pond in January, stating in Release that “thousands” giant French fortunes didn’t pay earnings tax, as a result of they’d “a reference tax income of zero”. An oddity for some, a scandal for others, in a rustic within the midst of a budgetary scarcity.
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