A new report today from the BBC states that M. Depardieu is to give up his French passport, following his move over the border to Belgium.
The star of Asterix & Obelix is very upset by comments from M. Jean-Marc Ayrault, the prime minister.
From the BBC report:
The prime minister had suggested that Depardieu's move to the town of
Nechin, just over the border from the French city of Lille, was
unpatriotic at a time of cutbacks.
"I find this quite shabby. All that just to avoid paying
tax," he said on France 2 TV channel. "Paying a tax is an act of
solidarity, a patriotic act."
M. Depardieu says that so far in his career, he has paid €145,000,000 in taxes.
Given that vast sum, I am inclined to sympathise with him!
Until the next time.
2 comments:
not short of a bob or two then, is he?
No he isn't, though it's reported he's been paying about 85% tax...
He would be short if he stayed in France next year though; reminds me of the Beatles: "One for you nineteen for me" a reference to the enlightened tax policies on the 1960s.
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