Jean Peyrelevade, Economist: "The Zucman Tax Has No Meaning"

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TRIBUNE. A tax floor on big fortunes in France would be an economic aberration, explains, in a forum in the "World", the economic adviser to the socialist Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy, from 1981 to 1983.

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Three economists, including Gabriel Zucman, promoter of a tax on the super millionaires, denounce the regressivity of the French tax system in a forum in the "World" on 11 June. Some blame him for his methodology.

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The three economists Gabriel Zucman, Jean Pisani-Ferry and Olivier Blanchard proposed, in a forum in the World, on 11 June, to put a minimum annual tax of 2% on the wealth of the 1,800 tax homes whose assets exceed 100 million euros. This measure, rejected by the Senate on 12 June, was taken over by the whole left, including moderate, which included it in its so-called government programme. However, not only does this measure make no sense, but …