The election candidates multiply the proposals on the reform of taxation on the inheritance. Emmanuel Macron likes him to maintain a certain ambiguity on the subject.
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At each campaign his tax. In 2012, it was the 75% tax. In 2017, the abolition of the housing tax. Will the estate tax be the marker of the campaign 2022? A few weeks ago, Emmanuel Macron, saw in any case in the ultrasensible question of the legacy nothing less than A component of the” DNA “Our peasant nation”, facing the readers of the Parisian . Valérie Pécresse lodges, she, the heart of “French culture”, a subject she hears “register in a national narrative”.
But where the head of state likes to maintain a certain ambiguity on the subject, the candidate of the Republicans proposed, Sunday, January 23, on TF1, and the next day in an interview in Figaro, to remove the rights of succession for “95% of French”, promising a “shock of transmissions”. “I assume that we can convey his heritage to his children, it is the fruit of a work life that has been taxed, hypertaxized and retax,” she explained, partly taking the idea of A “death tax” formulated by his former rival, the member for the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti, who proposed to completely eliminate succession duties during the primary of the right in the fall of 2021.
Valérie Pécresse suggests, to double the exemption ceiling by bringing it from 100,000 to 200,000 euros per child (knowing that 50% of the inheritances are less than 70 000 euros), and at 100,000 euros for the “Indirect” transmissions, that is, not benefiting from direct descendants. It also wants to facilitate donations between living, allowing to give 100,000 euros every six years, against every fifteen years today, including between grandparents and grandchildren. It is all funded by several reforms (pensions, unemployment insurance, social benefits and reform of the State). A proposal likely to seduce beyond its traditional electorate on the right.
“The taxation of the inheritance is a good way to bring together the great family of the right and the far right”, estimates Emmanuel River, International Director of Public Kantar Political Studies. There are those who are familiar with the tax system and who are in favor of a decline in the estate tax because it concerns them, but also a more popular electorate, which shows a greater mistrust vis-à-vis. The state, “this France which is afraid of decommissioning, which has only its home for heritage and for whom the inheritance is an existential anxiety, even if it does not know that it is probably exempt from taxes in the current system “He said Mr. Riviere. See him in Valérie Pécresse’s proposal a “hyphen” between the liberal right and the popular right, similar to “the successful alliance by Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007”.
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