France tightens grip on super rich

French electoral candidate Francois Hollande and Jean-Luc Mélenchon promise to limit fat cat salaries and change the tax

a cobbled street, a man in designer boots was preparing a spotted pony stables outside private historic mansion. Bentley was inclined to the picturesque village square. Uniformed personnel vests passed through the doors of a high electrical landowners and visitors politely admired amateur watercolors in an exhibition of art in what is considered the richest people in France.

Quaint, quiet and well maintained, Marnes-la-Coquette has 1,700 inhabitants, including dozens of millionaires, who voted heavily for President Nicolas Sarkozy right in presidential elections. Surrounded by greenery, the city pushes the western suburbs of Paris, favored by the bankers, the aging pop stars and aristocratic families nicknamed the "heirs". Live behind high walls, the super-rich could soon have more reason than ever to hide behind a parapet.

"There is a taboo about money and success in this country. You must be discreet about his fortune," whispered a grandmother very well dressed, grabbing her purse.

soak the rich, the bankers hit, and hit the employing class have become focal points in a bruising campaign French presidential election. France, and back to the Revolution, or simply boiling anger against the injustices revealed by the financial crisis, will now lead the world in the denigration of the mega-rich. Tax increases for the rich are at the center of debate and if left wins, France could become the richest country in the EU tax, and one of the death penalty worldwide.

The French public are strongly in favor of tightening the grip on the mega-rich. François Hollande, the Socialist candidate leading the polls say would win the second round in May, has promised a tax bracket of 75% after gains of ? 1 million. More than six out of 10 French approve. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, brand fire left supported by the Communist Party, has reached the third place in the polls with his promise to limit the salaries of Fat Cat ? 360,000 (£ 300,000) after tax income would be 100 % and the state "take all".

Even Sarkozy, known as the "president of the rich" for their generous tax breaks for the rich, has been redesigned as a "people's president", offering to reduce tax loopholes and tax exiles to French fleeing abroad to pay the difference to the French State.

The French are more suspicious of capitalism that the Chinese, according to polls. Two thirds agree with the idea that the state should take from the rich and give to the poor. But many wonder if the election rhetoric will succeed in eradicating a deeply unjust French where the super rich are often able to pay tax just anything, make strange tax dodge hiring accountants to choose major through the many gaps in their favor.

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• always boils L'Oréal cosmetics heiress Liliane Bettencourt, the richest woman in France, living in a house full of paintings by Matisse where your dogs eat only fresh fish, however, that has received a ? 30m reduction state taxes a few years ago. A judge is investigating whether his family gave him brown envelopes of money to the party of Nicolas Sarkozy in illegal financing of the election campaign of 2007.

Holland, who has famously said: "I do not like the rich," he said making the rich pay more taxes was "patriotic." It is clear that the 75% tax on people who earn more than ? 1 million would affect only a few thousand people and not make big coffers to, said: "It is not a question of value is one question of morality. "High taxes discourage businesses offering fat cat salaries, he argued.

The left would like to change the style to France as a champion of the world against the ravages of greed and Anglo-American system of finance brutal, but the French banking lobby remains strong. When Maurice Lévy, Chairman of Publicis advertising agency in third place received a bonus of ? 16.2 million last month, the Socialists said it was "obscene". But the right has attacked Holland proposed tax on super-rich like crazy, saying that the players leak and the head of the class pack for Switzerland, Belgium and the United Kingdom. "There would be no Steve Jobs in France," said Xavier Bertrand, Minister of Labour and Employment.

newspaper Les Echos illustrates a report on whether there would be an exodus of France rich with images of South Kensington and a Learjet on a track. David Cameron has not only reduced the tax rate in the UK, while the French candidates threaten to increase, announced fleeing the French bankers are welcome in the city.
"I can not see an exodus -. Those who want to leave have already left our friends drove up sticks in Switzerland," said a banker millionaire retired the suede jacket and shirt tiles Marnes - la-Coquette.

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