Jean-Pierre Foucault with his beak in the water: costly legal setback for the host!

Jean-Pierre Foucault will have to go to the checkout! According to information relayed by Capital, on April 6, 2022, the famous animator lost his lawsuit against the tax authorities. As a reminder, his legal action concerned the fact that he may have had recourse to the Dutreil pact in order not to pay wealth tax. Indeed, before the ISF was abolished by Emmanuel Macron in 2017, Jean-Pierre Foucault should have paid it. He should even have paid 68,817 euros in wealth tax. “Which with the rate in force at the time, corresponded to a heritage of approximately 7.5 million euros“, indicate our colleagues from Capital. Only, in order not to pay this sum, the host had recourse to the Girardin law which makes it possible to exempt investments in Dom Tom from tax. He also took advantage of the Dutreil pact to reduce his wealth tax by 75%..

But a problem arises since to be able to claim this tax reduction, the activity of the declared company must be mainly commercial. However, he has invested in renewable energies with his company Parasol Production (he has invested in photovoltaic panels in Guadeloupe and in companies in Santo Domingo). But this company did not meet, in 2017, for the tax authorities, all the conditions to benefit from the Dutreil pact.

Jean-Pierre Foucault did not win his case against the tax authorities

Thereby, the taxman demanded 365,394 euros from him. Jean-Pierre Foucault had appealed this decision. After several years of proceedings the sentence fell: the presenter of Miss France must pay. Jean-Pierre Foucault’s lawyer, Philippe Gosset, contacted by Capital, did not wish to comment on the case.

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