Questão 8626

• Banca: ESAF
• Órgão: Receita Federal
• Ano: 2005
• Provas: ESAF - 2005 - Receita Federal - Auditor Fiscal da Receita Federal - Área Tecnologia da Informação - Prova 1; ESAF - 2005 - Receita Federal - Auditor Fiscal da Receita Federal - Área Tributária e Aduaneira - Prova 1
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Your answers to questions 25 to 27 must be based on the
text below entitled "Flight of the French":

Flight of the French
Source: Newsweek (adapted)
Sept 26th/Oct 3rd 2005

The Belgians call them "fiscal refugees", but these
refugees wear Chanel. They are runaways from high
taxes in France. Officially, France has lost, on average,
one millionaire or billionaire tax payer per day for tax
reasons since 1997, when the government started trying
to track capital flight. Privately, economists say the
number is much higher. "The statistic is stupid," holds
French economist Nicolas Baverez. "It's as if, to count
contraband, you only counted what people declared at
the border."
While much of Europe has revised its tax codes, France's
fiscal inertia is virtually begging its rich to leave. Holding dear
its commitment to égalité and fraternité, France has bucked
the trend in the European Union, where most member states
have dropped the wealth tax since the mid-1990s. France
went the opposite way in 1997 by abolishing a cap that limited
the wealth-tax bill, which kicks in at incomes over 720,000
euros to 85% of a taxpayer's income. The result: some pay
more taxes than they earn in income.

The text refers to France's

• A. historic decision to drop its wealth-tax.
• B. recent proposal to suppress the wealth-tax.
• C. commitment to prevent the so-called capital fl ight.
• D. current fiscal policy in relation to the rich.
• E. controversial attempt to penalize its fiscal refugees.

Gabarito: D

Comentários

• France's
  fiscal inertia is virtually begging its rich to leave. Holding dear
  its commitment to égalité and fraternité, France has bucked
  the trend in the European Union, where most member states
  have dropped the wealth tax since the mid-1990s. 
  Basicamente esse texto reafirma a posição francesa de não-modificar suas políticas em relação aos muito ricos.

• d-

  The tax is levied on people whose wealth fluctutates in the millions, which in turn causes them to leave for Belgium where their income is not as heavily taxed.