The candidate of La France insoumise in the presidential election promises to tax high incomes at 90% if elected. An ideological measure, according to specialists.
By Kevin Badeau
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Un tax bludgeon. The leader of La France insoumise (LFI) Jean-Luc Mélenchon unveiled, in The echoes, the outline of its tax program. The candidate for the Élysée, given third by certain pollsters, aims to reform the income tax scale from floor to ceiling. This one, much more progressive than the current version, would go from 5 to 14 slices. The marginal rate, namely the highest bracket of the scale, would be increased to 90% for income above 33,300 euros per month (400,000 euros per year).
This line of the Mélenchonist program, already mentioned in November 2017, does not fail to make people react. “I understood that Mélenchon wanted to take everything from the rich. I find it very generous to leave them a little, “jokes Olivier…
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