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Hollande Tries To Impose France's Failed Economic Model On The Whole of Europe


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Not content with ruining his own country’s economy and seeing some of its best and brightest flee to freer lands, the French President, François Hollande, is trying to spread his own particular flavour of socialism across Europe via everyone’s favourite enemy of freedom, the European Union.

Paris, home of 70 percent income tax, has for a long time supported harmonisation of tax rates across EU member states. With one of the highest income tax rates in the world, the French government argues that low tax rates prevent the smooth working of the European Common Market. Now, Hollande’s government is pushing a long mooted idea, heavily backed by the European Commission, for a common tax base for the European banking sector.

This is nothing new; the European Commission has spent years attempting to harmonise national corporate tax systems but has faced resistance from the UK, Ireland, Lithuania and others. Of course, this “harmonisation” would never be towards a lower tax system.

The Commission is of the view that harmonised systems will create growth and jobs while boosting competitiveness of EU countries; the proposed Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB), initially suggested in 2001, hasn’t taken off because member states have so far protected this area of national sovereignty.

But once again, the Commission are on the march with France at the helm; the Eurozone crisis and ‘Euro Plus Pact’ for greater fiscal and economic convergence have – in the opinion of the Commission – created a chance to push their plans forward and with the election of Juncker to the Commission top job the City would be wise to be concerned.

Needless to say, it is proving unpopular and France has less a mountain to climb than the entirety of the Himalayas. But this year alone Hollande has called for harmonisation with France’s “largest neighbours” by 2020; one can only assume that as well as Germany, the Benelux states and Italy, Hollande has Britain and the City of London in his sights too.

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Le Fail.


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