Friday, June 7, 2013

For France's Rich, the Tax Pain Isn't Over

France’s wealthiest households have borne the brunt of President François Hollande’s efforts to trim the budget deficit. Now he’s going to hit them again.
At a news conference last month, Hollande hinted that a broader swath of the population would have to share the pain of future deficit-cutting. “We’ve asked a lot of them,” he said of France’s wealthy, who have faced tax increases and surcharges that resulted in 8,000 households receiving 2012 tax bills that exceeded their annual incomes.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-03/for-frances-rich-the-tax-pain-isnt-over 

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