Gerard Depardieu becomes a Russian citizen.

[LumbergTech]

I know, these guys really are idiots. More people need to leave the US to avoid the high taxes and send a message to the welfare leeches and a big F u to them

Feel free to leave!

 

[MovingTarget]

Good for France. I hope that they have special restrictions for citizens that renounce their citizenship, especially for people like him. If you fully renounce citizenship, you shouldn't get to partake in the fruits of civilized society that the nation makes possible. Fvck 'em.

 

[Double Trouble]

Good for France. I hope that they have special restrictions for citizens that renounce their citizenship, especially for people like him. If you fully renounce citizenship, you shouldn't get to partake in the fruits of civilized society that the nation makes possible. Fvck 'em.

He's not renouncing his citizenship, he's simply moving his official residence somewhere else. There's nothing stopping him from living in France or some other place in europe much of the time, all the while not having to give up 75% of his money. Seems like a very smart move to me.

 

[Incorruptible]

He's not renouncing his citizenship, he's simply moving his official residence somewhere else. There's nothing stopping him from living in France or some other place in europe much of the time, all the while not having to give up 75% of his money. Seems like a very smart move to me.

It is a very smart move and a big screw you to hollande and the socialists who think taxing the rich will work

 

[Abwx]

I live in France and can tell you this guy is a total maddafuker.

First he lived from subsided movies , supporting at he time the left wing
that did take the power after two decades of right wing rule , but once
his fortune was made he started to be a right winger himself going as far
as being amnistied from tax fraud by Sarkozy the former prez himself....

In short , thoses people consider that the country is theirs , that it s
just good to be milked all the way and that the only ones that should
pay income tax are the serfs as during royalty times..

Thoses actors , as well as sports and any entertainment idols are percepted
as wealth creators by the usuals illiterate that couldnt make the difference
between wealth creation and wealth transfert....

 

[5150Joker]

France should never allow him back into the country.

 

[dennilfloss]

M. Depardieu doesn't have to live in Russia. He's good friends with Putin, who did his buddy a favour by granting him Russian citizenship. He'll probably keep his main residence in Belgium. And yes he has renounced his French citizenship and returned his passport. His Paris residence is for sale.

He renounced his citizenship not just due to the ridiculous 85% income tax rate imposed on the wealthy by the new government but mainly because of demeaning/derogatory statements made government officials when he expressed his objections to this policy.

 

[DucatiMonster696]

France is fucked economically due to the size of their debt. The whole of EU Europe that is debt laden is going to be fucked for quite a while. They (France's government) know it but the reality is they can't tell their citizens, "Sorry folks we screwed the pooch in promising to much so we have to raise everybody's taxes and cut our spending" so instead they have resorted to demonizing and going after the most successful individuals in their country but they don't realize that this won't save them either in the long run. Especially since those who are wealthy of all groups of people have the best ability to flee a nation that sees them as a sacrificial lambs for a angry mob that doesn't realize yet how much their government has screwed them over with it debt.

 

[Broheim]

M. Depardieu doesn't have to live in Russia. He's good friends with Putin, who did his buddy a favour by granting him Russian citizenship. He'll probably keep his main residence in Belgium. And yes he has renounced his French citizenship and returned his passport. His Paris residence is for sale.

He renounced his citizenship not just due to the ridiculous 85% income tax rate imposed on the wealthy by the new government but mainly because of demeaning/derogatory statements made government officials when he expressed his objections to this policy.

this. he's not moving to Russia although he does go there very often, which I guess is why Putin did him a solid.

 

[Broheim]

I live in France and can tell you this guy is a total maddafuker.

First he lived from subsided movies , supporting at he time the left wing
that did take the power after two decades of right wing rule , but once
his fortune was made he started to be a right winger himself going as far
as being amnistied from tax fraud by Sarkozy the former prez himself....

In short , thoses people consider that the country is theirs , that it s
just good to be milked all the way and that the only ones that should
pay income tax are the serfs as during royalty times..

Thoses actors , as well as sports and any entertainment idols are percepted
as wealth creators by the usuals illiterate that couldnt make the difference
between wealth creation and wealth transfert....

you are everything that is wrong with Europe.

 

[Double Trouble]

I don't care what justifications are used to support it, taking 75% or 85% of someone's income away in taxes is ridiculous, and I don't blame anyone for taking steps to avoid paying outrageous taxes. If I were wealthy and lived in France, I'd do exactly what many of them are doing, make my official residence in Germany, Spain, Andorra, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Monaco or Italy, then spend whatever amount of time I want in France.

 

[bozack]

Who will pay for the welfare state if not the rich? You planning to tax the middle class to spread the wealth?.....

Yes, absolutely...this has always been the plan.

There aren't enough super rich and rich to carry the rest of society, they are taxed at a higher rate as a symbol to justify the eventual increases in taxes on the middle class, not for actual revinue generation purposes.

Its like all of the bullshit right now with Obama making a big deal of the 2% paying in his words "a little more" that "little more" in the grand scheme of things won't do shit for our problems, even with the cuts that are needed (which will never come) eventually taxes and fees will have to rise on the coveted middle class which will bear the brunt of finaicing our bloated and out of control government.

I always find it laughable as they talk so highly of the middle class and how they are so important, people believe it is because they are working to their benefit but rather they simply see them as a means to a financial end, the only group large enough to contribute and yet not wealthy enough to avoid the comming taxes.

 

[Broheim]

I don't care what justifications are used to support it, taking 75% or 85% of someone's income away in taxes is ridiculous, and I don't blame anyone for taking steps to avoid paying outrageous taxes. If I were wealthy and lived in France, I'd do exactly what many of them are doing, make my official residence in Germany, Spain, Andorra, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Monaco or Italy, then spend whatever amount of time I want in France.

french citizens living in Monaco still have to pay french taxes.

 

[ShintaiDK]

The tax is Belgium is twice as high as in Russia. First he wanted to move to Belgium, and I guess he found out he couldnt save that much. He is a hypocrit. I wouldnt be surprised if he moves to the UAE next year.

 

[ShintaiDK]

There aren't enough super rich and rich to carry the rest of society, they are taxed at a higher rate as a symbol to justify the eventual increases in taxes on the middle class, not for actual revinue generation purposes.

Assuming capital gains are taxed equally as high. Its also an economic regulation tool to avoid the extreme money hoarding in private hands as we for example see in the US and middleeast. Hoarding is economicly damaging.

 

[Olikan]

you are everything that is wrong with Europe.

the guy hates Gerard because he made a tax crime, and went unpunished.... how the hell can you blame him?

tax evasion by moving from France to Russia?

what if i told you that.... in any socialist country, you are/were rewarded by hard work and success ?

 

[Olikan]

Assuming capital gains are taxed equally as high. Its also an economic regulation tool to avoid the extreme money hoarding in private hands as we for example see in the US and middleeast. Hoarding is economicly damaging.

so true....
nobody should have more money than the state, not only economicly but political problems too

 

[PokerGuy]

french citizens living in Monaco still have to pay french taxes.

Which is why he renounced his French citizenship. He can live wherever he wants now, without punitive taxation. Good move.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Which is why he renounced his French citizenship. He can live wherever he wants now, without punitive taxation. Good move.

No he cant. He needs to live the majority of the time in Russia. If he for example lives the majority of his time in Denmark, Belgium, France or whatever. He will be taxed arcodring to local tax laws.

Its all about location, location and location.

 

[rudder]

they are fed programs passed by law, I like the fact my taxes fund them.

Just because You think they shouldn't exist doesn't mean they shouldn't exist. You get to choose how your tax dollars are spent via your representatives just like the rest of us, I don't like my tax dollars going to fund war and unneeded defense but a big chunk of it does go for that.


Your ignorance is not accounting for the millions of folks that disagree with you, in fact at this point in time the majority of Americans disagree with you. and because I am in the majority in my desire to see tax dollars go to welfare and social programs, they get funded.

Your real complaint is your minority viewpoint isn't held by the rest of us, in fact that seems to be the overreaching theme in most of your posts.

crying about how unfair it is your tax dollars go to fund what the majority of us has decided it will fund.

So of that $100 of taxes you send to the feds, $30 goes to bomb people, $10 goes to build cargo planes even the air force does not want, $5 goes to pay for a bloated workforce, $1 goes to subsidize ethanol, $2 goes towards a computer program requested by an agency that is a decade late and doesn't work as intended, $15 go to the people who failed to save for their own retirement, $4 goes to all the medicare patients that need electric scooters, etc, etc. Eventually $.01 may go to the program you want support.

For me, I would rather have more money in my pocket at the end of the day. There are plenty of local needs around me that the federal government has no interest in administering proper help. The money I send to these organizations and groups makes it directly to them and they can put a lot more than $.25 of $100 to good use. I prefer this over sending money to a bloated federal government where the people in charge are more interested in putting money to use that will get them re-elected. Unless you can afford a lobbyist... your representative won't do shit for you.

 

[Broheim]

No he cant. He needs to live the majority of the time in Russia. If he for example lives the majority of his time in Denmark, Belgium, France or whatever. He will be taxed arcodring to local tax laws.

Its all about location, location and location.

according to local tax laws is the important part, because he is not a french citizen then he wont be taxed as one in Monaco.

 

[Genx87]

He can build all the bakeries he wants, who's going to bake in them? Yes, of course he can take vacations, he couldn't take vacations before?

Do you really believe a guy who is rich enough to move from France to Russia to avoid that much taxes cant find a bakery in Russia to serve his needs? This line of argument is rather silly.

 

[ShintaiDK]

according to local tax laws is the important part, because he is not a french citizen then he wont be taxed as one in Monaco.

Monaco is an exeption to french citizens. Not others, since Monaco is essentially a country of its own. And he will be taxed arcoding to the rules in Monaco, not Russia.

The claim was, that now he was a russian citizen, he could then live anywhere he wanted without suffering the taxes. And thats wrong.

 

[Broheim]

Monaco is an exeption to french citizens. Not others, since Monaco is essentially a country of its own. And he will be taxed arcoding to the rules in Monaco, not Russia.

The claim was, that now he was a russian citizen, he could then live anywhere he wanted without suffering the taxes. And thats wrong.

Monaco and france has an agreement, a french person living in Monaco will always be taxed according to French laws regardless of time spent in the different countries.

 

[PokerGuy]

No he cant. He needs to live the majority of the time in Russia. If he for example lives the majority of his time in Denmark, Belgium, France or whatever. He will be taxed arcodring to local tax laws.

Its all about location, location and location.

I'm certainly not familiar with all the tax laws for those countries, but I'm guessing he can spend parts of the year in different nice places and not have to get his money stolen by the french government.