Emmanuel Macron and taxation

The changes are as follows:

Income from assets, irrespective of their characteristics (interest, dividends and capital gains) would be taxed at a flat rate of 30%, of which 15.5% are social security contributions. In other words income from assets would henceforth be taxed at a rate of

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Post election relief, will Macronomics deliver?

  This time round the pollsters didn’t get it wrong and Emmanuel Macron was indeed elected president of the French Republic on 7 May, as the markets had widely anticipated. Significant upswings had already taken place after Macron headed the first round results on 21 April, as well as following the no-holds-barred debate 3 May […]

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Reforms to UK RND status put on hold by UK Government until after the election

  UK Chancellor announced on 25 April that a series of ‘significant clauses’ from the Finance Bill are on hold.   In the run up to the 8 June election, the UK Chancellor has announced a delay to reforms expected in the Finance Bill (no 2) 2017.  These include the implementation of a maximum period […]

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