France to tax companies 75 pct on $1.3M salaries

[WestVirginiaRebel]

AccessNorthGeorgia.com:

PARIS (AP) -- French President Francois Hollande may have finally found a way to tax the really rich: by making their companies pay.

In a televised interview Thursday night, he said he wants companies that pay their employees more than 1 million euros ($1.3 million) to pay 75 percent payroll taxes on those salaries.

The proposed tax, which still needs to be approved by parliament, replaces one of Hollande's signature campaign proposals: to tax individuals who earns more than 1 million euros at 75 percent. France's highest court has thrown out that plan and the government has been looking for a replacement.

Hollande said he hoped the new proposal would push companies to lower executive pay at a time when France's economy is suffering, unemployment is soaring and employees are being asked to take pay cuts.

While the president reiterated his goal of stopping the rise of unemployment this year and restarting growth, he offered no specific new economic policies.

"The tools are there. We need to use them fully," he said on France-2 television.

The new payroll tax would last only two years. On the highest salaries, companies already pay payroll taxes that add up to at least 50 percent of the paycheck.

"What's my idea? It's not to punish," Hollande said. "When so much is asked of employees, can those who are the highest-paid not make this effort for two years?"

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Here we go again...

[Valin]

AccessNorthGeorgia.com:

PARIS (AP) -- French President Francois Hollande may have finally found a way to tax the really rich: by making their companies pay.

In a televised interview Thursday night, he said he wants companies that pay their employees more than 1 million euros ($1.3 million) to pay 75 percent payroll taxes on those salaries.

 

 

What could possible go wrong!

 

 

The proposed tax, which still needs to be approved by parliament, replaces one of Hollande's signature campaign proposals: to tax individuals who earns more than 1 million euros at 75 percent. France's highest court has thrown out that plan and the government has been looking for a replacement.

 

Here's hopping they get a clue and slap this down.