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AN INCREASE IN THE TOP INCOME TAX RATE AND HIGHER VAT ON “TRIPLE-PLAY” INTERNET PACKAGES ARE AMONG MONEY-SAVING MEASURES THE 2011 budget law has been finalised with a vote in the Senate 179


to 152. Overall it includes money-saving measures meant to help cut France’s deficit from €150 billion in 2010 to €92 billion next year. Some of the headline measures include: • The top rate


of income tax to rise one per cent to 41 per cent. • Removing special tax arrangements that reduce tax for newly-weds in the year of their marriage. • A new tax on the special


retraites-chapeaux top-up pensions enjoyed by big business bosses. • Freezing money given to local councils. • A reduction on wealth tax for investment into small business is cut from 75 to


50 per cent. • “Triple-play” offers (TV/internet/landline telephone) to be taxed at 19.6 per cent, not 5.5 per cent. • A “Google tax” at one per cent payable (by the advertisers) on online


advertising, set to be introduced in July 2011. PREVIOUS STORIES Newly weds could lose tax advantage Senate waters down new pension tax Photo: David Monniaux


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