Seven Nobel Prize winners urge France to adopt an ultra-rich tax

An additional pressure on François Bayrou. Seven Nobel Prize in economics called on Monday July 7, in A platform published by the newspaper Le Mondeto set up a minimum tax on the wealthy heritage in France on the model of the “Zucman taxes”. This was rejected in the Senate in June at a time when France is looking for revenue tracks.

With ultra -ties tax, “France on the occasion, again, to show the way to the rest of the world”write these winners of the prestigious economic distinction. Among them, the nobel economics 2024 Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, those of 2019 Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, those of 2001 George Akerlof and Joseph Stiglitz, as well as that of 2008 Paul Krugman, most of the American nationality.

According to these economists recognized internationally, “Ultrariches are particularly prosperous in France. The world billionaires have in heritage the equivalent of 14% of the GDP on the planet, according to Forbes magazine; the French almost 30% of the hexagonal GDP”.

Tax heritage through a floor tax expressed as a percentage “is effective, because it attacks all forms of optimization, whatever its nature”, continue these economists. “It is targeted because it mainly affects, among the wealthiest taxpayers, those who use tax optimization.”

The authors also salute international discussions going in this sense and the G20 proposal to establish a minimum world tax on billionaires equivalent to 2% of the heritage, rejected last year.