|
|
France will no longer be competitive in soccer.
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Maryland
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: UK
Status:
Offline
|
|
Meh. French teams have been in decline in Europe in recent years anyway. They really only have one big team now.
Football players have long been very good at avoiding paying much tax.
|
I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Status:
Offline
|
|
75% on salaries in excess of €1 million/year, and it's up from something like 50% before.
The political decision was to add this extra tax bracket at the top as part of the efforts to reduce the deficit in the national budget. It doesn't add a lot to the budget, but it's a way to show that everyone contributes when the benefits and services for the less fortunate are slashed . This article is about a court ruling on how to apply the tax - in some countries, athletes are taxed according to a different scheme, and the French clubs wanted something similar.
|
The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Standing on the shoulders of giants
Status:
Offline
|
|
Apparently not 1 person who works at a company in France and earns over €1 million will be impacted by this. An accountant was on the TV explaining how easy it was to get around this. In fact its quite similar to the usage of Amazon and Google and Starbucks in how they reduce their tax payments.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Standing on the shoulders of giants
Status:
Offline
|
|
This guy might have to pay something though.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
Status:
Offline
|
|
You just take a $1 salary with a $50 million bonus.
|
"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Status:
Offline
|
|
They're looking to outlaw that as well, on an EU level - there is a proposal to outlaw bonuses larger than 100% of the base salary. The City (The London equivalent of Wall Street) is going absolutely apeshit over it. It's not very far along yet, but the only people against it seem to be England.
|
The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
Status:
Offline
|
|
Take a $1 salary, "donate" $50 million to your shell company, get a huge tax write off.
|
"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|