フランスの俳優ジェラール·ドパルデューが、彼のパスポート、社会保障カードを放棄することを決定。2012年には85%の税金を払い、45年間に1億4500万0000ユーロの税金を払ってきた。税金の安いベルギーに住所を移転。
Gerard Depardieu renuncia a su pasaporte francés
El actor, exiliado fiscal en Bélgica, acusa al Gobierno socialista de sancionar “el éxito, la creación, el talento y la diferencia”
Miguel Mora Paris 16 DIC 2012 - 13:50 CET
Gerard Depardieu renounces his French passport
The actor, tax exile in Belgium, accused the Socialist government to punish "the successful creation, the talent and the difference"
Miguel Mora Paris 16 DIC 2012 - 13:50 CET
French actor Gerard Depardieu, outraged by the criticism after it was known that transferred his residence to Belgium for tax reasons, has decided to give up his passport and social security card - "I've never used" - he claims in an open letter published today by Le Journal du Dimanche and addressed to Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault. Depardieu says that "unfortunately" has nothing else to do in France and, while still "love" to the French, is leaving the country because socialists "believe that the successful creation, talent, and actually difference must penalized ".
Ayrault criticized this week in the starkest terms Depardieu, saying it was "despicable" the actor, 64, establishes residence in the Belgian town of Néchin, one kilometer from the French border, where he has bought a house and inhabited by 28% of French people, many of them for tax reasons.
"We no longer have the same country," Depardieu writes in his letter, "I am a true European, a citizen of the world as I always instilled in my father." With 42-year career and 170 films, the actor, one of the glories French cinema, remember who started working at age 14 in a print shop, then as a warehouse porter, then as an artist, and has always paid his taxes, "Who are you to judge that?" he asks.
"I do not mess with those with cholesterol, hypertension, diabetes, or too much alcohol, or against those who fall asleep when they go on a bike: I am one of them, as they love to repeat their beloved media," says Depardieu, before concluding that there has "never killed anyone" nor detracts as employer that employs 80 people.
The actor, who is selling the luxurious garden duplex with 1,800 square meters of Paris VI district for 50 million euros, which also explains his reasons for change of residence "are numerous intimate" and complains that people " most illustrious "he" have or have been expat "of France without having had" the same rage "against them.
President François Hollande announced during his election campaign, during which Depardieu supported his rival, Nicolas Sarkozy, that would create a 75% tax on incomes over one million euros, and although the measure has not yet been Government has approved its raised taxes to the richest and removed various tax exemptions that favored the wealthy.
Depardieu says that in 2012 paid 85% tax on their income and that in 45 years of work has paid 145 million euros, and concludes: "Despite my excesses, my appetite and my love for life, I am a free, Monsieur, and will continue to be educated. "
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