The French government, in controversy over the tax exile of actor Gerard Depardieu, has advanced the idea of taxing expatriates, a hypothesis that already emerged during the presidential campaign for Nicolas Sarkozy. Interviewed in the Senate, the minister responsible for the Budget Jerome Cahuzac, evoked this idea as a "trace".
It is a question, explained the minister, of preventing "those who choose to live outside our borders from being exempted from the tax obligations that these people have towards the country where they were born, grew up, were educated, trained, where they often have encountered prosperity if not fortune”.
Basically, he explained, "a country to which they owe a lot and where, I think, they are wrong in exempting themselves from charges that are required in order to be correct". The President of the Republic, said Cahuzac, "suggested that the tax treaties be reviewed, I think this is the only way to avoid expatriation for tax reasons" without mentioning the countries concerned.
