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Re:French Entrepreneurs Revolt by loup-vaillant on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @05:35AM (#4630677)
No, he's talking about total effective taxes in France. That includes things such as VAT.

Basically, the lower classes pay around 40% taxes (compared to their income). The middle class pay around 50%. Rich people pay around 30%, and the riches pay even much less (percentage wise). Apparently, wealthy people are better at exploiting loopholes in our tax system.

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Re:French Entrepreneurs Revolt by twoodfin on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @07:58AM (#4631015)
That the VAT taxes consumption, something the rich do proportionally less of, is not a "loophole". It's fundamental to the design of the tax.
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Re:French Entrepreneurs Revolt by loup-vaillant on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @09:55AM (#4631480)
Good point.

It doesn't explain everything however: The top 2% (or is it 0.2%?) pay less than 10% taxes. Direct income tax alone is supposed to approach 50% for those incomes.

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