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75 % Tax Rate Gets Gerard Depardieu To Surrender French Passport, Move.


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I too believe that the rich should pay more than they do in the USA, but 75%??? Wow...!

 

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/16/gerard-depardieu-passport_n_2311561.html

 

Gerard Depardieu, one of France's best-known actors, has chastised his country's Socialist prime minister for insulting remarks over his decision to move to tax-friendly Belgium and said in an open letter published Sunday that he's turning in his passport.

The letter, which the weekly Le Journal du Dimanche said was penned by Depardieu, quickly propelled him into the spotlight, not for his acclaimed acting skills but for raising the sensitive issue of tax exiles as France looks to fill state coffers with a stiff tax on the rich.

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Including all the immigrants to the UK and France?

 

Those have not given up their citizenship in their country of origin!

 

But this one:

 

 

Denise Rich, songwriter, socialite and the former wife of a pardoned billionaire, has given up her U.S. citizenship, and will reportedly thus save millions in U.S. taxes as well.

 

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/07/09/denis-rich-gives-up-us-citizenship-will-save-millions-in-us-taxes-report-says/#ixzz2FMVZ4SPn

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This measure might actually reduce tax revenue......its a well known fact that as taxes increase people try much harder to find ways around having to pay them :tuxedo:

 

It's a well known fact that rich people ALWAYS try to evade taxes no matter the tax rate. Just look at Romney. Even though he paid less than 14% of his income in taxes, part of his assets were sent to the Cayman Islands and other tax havens.

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