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Should inheritance be taxed? This question is in the process of establishing itself as a campaign theme. Several candidates are attacking it, whether on the right or on the left, and would strongly like to reduce it, if not eliminate it.
If there is a tax that is unanimously against him, it is that on inheritance. “I find that the inheritance tax is much too high”disputes a Parisian. Their removal “would also be unjust and inappropriate”, recognize another. Taxing inheritances remains a bad experience, whatever the social class, and although the majority of French people are not concerned. Only one in four estates is taxable.
Presidential candidates have made it a campaign issue. Valérie Pécresse proposes to abolish inheritance rights for the majority of French people, and to facilitate donations every six years instead of fifteen years today. Marine Le Pen intends to abolish inheritance tax on real estate less than 300,000 euros. On the left is the splits.
“For the French, inheritance tax is really perceived as something illegitimate”analyzes Brice Teinturier, Deputy CEO of the Ipsos Institute. Surely dreading the name of “president of the rich”, Emmanuel Macron has so far been cautious on the issue.