ANALYSE – Increasing inheritance taxation would be suicidal in a country like France, which already taxes inheritances and donations more severely than its neighbors.
This is the latest fashionable idea: what if we reformed inheritance taxes? By making them heavier, naturally, because in this period of budgetary scarcity, we must bring money into the state coffers. Certainly, the government has promised not to touch the inheritance, at least for the moment. But the ball did not go far… On October 17, the Finance Committee, chaired by the Insoumis Éric Coquerel, thus adopted an amendment providing for taxing at 49% (compared to 45%, current maximum rate) the inheritances of more than 3.6 million euros.
“Beyond 12 million euros, I take everything”, proclaims Jean-Luc Mélenchon. We are no longer very far from it in our country, which has always been angry with the notion of inheritance. “What have you done for so much ? You took the trouble to be born, and nothing more,” Beaumarchais was already indignant, in 1784, in The Marriage of Figaro. Some people don't hide it: they dream…
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