French court upholds Hollande's tax on high income
PARIS - French President Francois Hollande has finally got his super tax on high incomes after the country's highest court upheld the law's latest version.
Hollande originally promised a 75 percent tax on income over 1 million euros ($1.38 million). It would have affected a tiny number of taxpayers, but it became a symbol of Hollande's campaign promise to make France fairer for the middle class.
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But the constitutional council threw out that tax as unfair.
Hollande's administration rewrote the tax in the 2014 budget. It is now a 50 percent tax paid by the employer, and doesn't reduce employees' earnings.
The council ruled Sunday that tax was constitutional. In a series of rulings on the budget, it declared a change to the wealth tax that would have taxed latent revenue unconstitutional.
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