French 2007 legislative elections round 2 | 117 comments (117 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

If you read french see here:

http://obouba.over-blog.com/article-10850237.html

Short story: government mandated Eric Besson (ex PS now UMP) to study a possible raise of VAT (up to +5%) with a corresponding decrease of social cotisations on income. It was presented as a way to fight delocalisations but depending on the details it will likely be a way to lower tax progressivity.

by Laurent GUERBY on Mon Jun 18th, 2007 at 04:12:35 AM EST
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Re: Borloo TVA sociale (4.00 / 2)

And Borloo talked about it in MSM last week sparking the debate.

by Laurent GUERBY on Mon Jun 18th, 2007 at 04:13:28 AM EST
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Re: Borloo TVA sociale (none / 1)

Ah, so TVA=VAT! I couldn't figure that out...

One more thing: what is "délocalisation"/delocalisation? Outsourcing?

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Mon Jun 18th, 2007 at 05:44:46 AM EST
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Re: Borloo TVA sociale (none / 0)

More specifically, offshoring.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Mon Jun 18th, 2007 at 05:51:33 AM EST
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Re: Borloo TVA sociale (none / 1)

Heheh. I had the same confusion. TVA to me means "Tennessee Valley Authority," which clearly wasn't right...

Acronyms don't often transfer well. Once when I was wearing a t-shirt with the Washington DC baseball team's "DC" logo on it, a Chilean friend wanted to know why I was endorsing the Christian Democrats....

by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Mon Jun 18th, 2007 at 05:58:39 AM EST
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Acronyms (none / 1)

To translate them here's a trick:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVA

Then click or move or your mouse on the "english" on the left column.

That's what I do (in reverse) for english acronyms I don't understand :)

by Laurent GUERBY on Mon Jun 18th, 2007 at 06:36:17 AM EST
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French 2007 legislative elections round 2 | 117 comments (117 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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