You are here in a country at the forefront of creativity in terms of taxes: Emmanuel Macron was ironic Thursday on the strong French tax pressure, pleading for the internationalization of taxes.
During a debate at the summit on the global financial system that he is organizing in Paris, the French president bounced back on calls for new international taxes to finance the fight against global warming and poverty.
In France, we are number two in the world in terms of levels of compulsory deductions, affirmed the Head of State, who spoke in English. And yet we have an airline tax, we have a financial transaction tax. We have implemented both, he added, lamenting that the rest of the world has not followed suit, despite years of debate in favor of these taxes.
Sometimes we feel a little lonely, continued Emmanuel Macron.
I am a big supporter of the internationalization of these taxes, because it would reduce my problems, added the head of state, who made a political commitment not to increase and even to reduce French taxes, and attracted the nickname of president of the rich for having partly abolished, during his first mandate, the solidarity tax on wealth.