For the French tax authorities, the key issue for deciding if you should pay wealth tax is the location of your principal home.
I mean, it was only 3 years ago that France introduced a special tax break for individuals paying wealth tax if they made an investment in a startup.
Since becoming a Russian citizen in 2013 to avoid paying wealth-based taxes, Depardieu has also announced another project dealing with the former Soviet Union.
THE Occupy Wall Street movement has raised important questions about the respect paid to wealth in our society.
Under the Bush tax cuts, the gift tax, which is paid on wealth of more than $1 million transferred while you're alive, did not disappear as of Jan 1.
The selected study variables include: age of adolescent, level of education, religious affiliation, ethnicity, marital status, work status (paid work), wealth status, knowledge of ovulatory cycle, use of health facility, place of residence and region of residence.
Residents there pay no wealth tax and no capital gains tax on stock sales.
Asked in a poll whether the revelation that both Ms Royal and Mr Sarkozy pay the wealth tax would affect the way they will vote, fully 85% said it would make no difference at all.
It was almost a relief when British newspapers reported that Italy's star footballers were threatening to strike rather than pay a wealth tax.In contrast, a deep, velvet-and-mahogany silence envelops the British plutocracy.
These include extra levies on those who pay the wealth tax, higher inheritance tax, an extra 3% tax on dividends, heavier charges on stock options, higher taxes on financial transactions, banks and oil firms, and a 5% extra tax on big companies.
