Overtaxing "Mega-Inheritances" or Reducing Inheritance Taxes, the Tax Debate that Divides the Left and Right for the Presidential
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Inheritance tax can still count on broad support. Will it go up soon?
At eight months from the election, the idea of further imposing successions reappears, against the background of expected increases in transmissions between generations. But this measure, carried by the left and the CFDT, remains largely rejected to the right.
By Eric V. The CFDT wants to tax inheritances from the first euro, in the name of social justice. Eight out of ten estates are now exempt from tax thanks to the reduction of € 100 000. What the measure would reach is not the fortunes — they have been elsewhere for a long time. It is the savings book of mothers. @import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Gloock&family=Outfit:wght@400;600;700&family=IBM+Plex+Mono:wght@700&family=Crimson…
While more than 8 in 10 French people are calling for tax relief on inheritance, the left is returning in order of battle towards a greater taxation of inheritance rights. Its objective: massively tax large transmissions to finance purchasing power, ecology or youth. A political bet that advocates more redistribution.
The presidential campaign already starts strongly on the consent to pay (plus) taxes, in a critical budgetary context. The political history of the day is therefore also fiscal. Do the French have "sufficient" for their taxes or "sufficient" for their taxes?
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