He turned in his French passport and French social security card.
So what. Only means he cant leave the EU /shrug. He can still travel freely between France and Belgium.. and Germany, Spain, and most other places around Europe.
And it is typical British media bias when it comes to anything about the EU.
I suppose that means he really can't go back, unless he gets Belgium citizenship.
Of course he can lol.
Lawmakers in France are looking to add a new law stripping citizenship from those that do move abroad, so that really would force the issue.
And it would not apply with in the EU.. where he is. And it would only apply in special situations of which this guy would not qualify. He aint rich enough.
Its not so much the income tax that he is thumbing his nose at, its the "wealth tax", which is now imposed on in France on assets held with a combined value of 1.3million euros. This tax, along with capital gain taxes, are not levied in Belgium.
LOL ...he is mad because his guy lost the election.
Lets look at some facts on the two countries.
Both have capital gains taxes. Belgium's varies (depending on how the captial gain was gotten) from 16.5% to 44%. In France it is 19.5% plus social charges.. and still it all varies depending on how the capital gain was gotten. Not that big a difference tbh.
And in fact if he does not get the special expat treatment in Belgium (where only income gotten for work in Belgium is taxed in Belgium.. but there are a lot of rules on this part and since he will want to become resident in Belgium then it might not apply), then his taxes might actually go up. Why? well..
In Belgium any income over 35k is taxed by 50%.
In France any income over 69k is taxed by only 41%. Only income over 1 million Euros is taxed at 75%. I doubt that this fool makes a million a year and even if he did, then he would pay far more in Belgium on the under 1 million than in France.
This is a right wing pr stunt not based on facts pure and simple.
And for the record, I am against the 75% tax rate in France.. the idea is stupid but I do understand why they have done it. They should fix the tax system instead so the rich wont be able to avoid taxes.
But that the right wing anti-tax movement are attempting to use this drunk has been French movie star who pisses on airplanes in front of people when he dont get his way... well frankly it is an utter failure.... someone should be doing their homework.