THE BRUSSELS LETTER. Inheritance taxation is the surprise guest of the presidential campaign in France. What about our neighbors in the EU?
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LInheritance taxes have been invited into the French presidential campaign, to the point that even the communist candidate, Fabien Roussel, is proposing to raise them for so-called average households. Éric Zemmour claims to abolish inheritance tax for family businesses. Anne Hidalgo outbids by removing them until the transmission of a heritage of 300,000 euros. Valérie Pécresse wants to tax the inheritance up to 200,000 euros per child. Yannick Jadot also pushes “up to 200,000 euros”, but including, in addition, the grandchildren. Candidate LR adds that each parent could also, during their lifetime, give 100,000 euros every six years, and no longer every fifteen years. In short, the Lépine competition for inheritance law is launched!
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