In January 2022, Florent Pagny appears on his social networks, a mine however rather radiant, and announces terrible news. The 61-year-old artist is battling lung cancer and will have to begin a fierce fight against the disease in the months to follow. A struggle that will lead to the loss of his hair, eyelashes, and even make his legendary goatee disappear. Several months after this announcement, the coach of “The Voice” is doing better, but is not out of the woods yet. Especially since our colleagues from Closer announced that Azucena’s companion has learned some bad news “on the occasion of a control examination passed in Argentina”.
During this check, Florent Pagny discovers that “the condition of the chain of lymph nodes located between his two lungs was very worrying” as noted by our colleagues. worry “brutally revived”the interpreter of “My freedom of thought” would therefore be preparing to return to France to follow a new adapted treatment protocol. But this return does not delight everyone. Indeed, many Internet users accuse the coach of “The Voice” to follow the care of a country in which “He doesn’t pay his taxes”. Faced with this wave of criticism, the Instagram account “florent_pagny_fan” had to republish a video dating from 2020 in which Florent Pagny clarifies the situation on his taxation.
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Florent Pagny does pay his taxes in France
At the time, the 61-year-old artist had to explain his tax situation after the song was released “For the people of the rescue”. “The die-hards of bitterness… because they don’t understand why I’m on this charity project when I don’t “pay my taxes in France”… ignorant”he lets go straight away in front of the camera before “presenting” a presentation on French taxation: “It is not because one is not tax resident in France that one does not pay taxes in France. Especially in the case like mine”. Indeed, if some are unaware of it, artists and sportsmen have “special diet”, said Florent Pagny at the time. According to his words, “any service or performance on French territory will be subject to French taxation and payable in France”.
In fact all he “can do”which he has “could do”, “recorded, all shows, tours, The Voice”… is subject to French taxation and paid in France. “80% of my income is taxable in France and paid in France”he assures afterwards before concluding: “It’s a stupidity and an ignorance that forces me to intervene and dot the i’s. And I’ll finish When we don’t know, we don’t talk. A good hearer”. An explanation which may date back several years, but which makes it possible to respond to today’s criticisms.
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