L’ORÉAL BOSS OPPOSES FRENCH 75% TAX RATE

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CEO of L'Oréal is resisting French government plans to impose a 75% tax rate on incomes above Euro EUR1million. The new socialist administration of President Francois Hollande has published a budget including the controversial idea, and L'Oréal's Jean-Paul Agon is opposing it, warning: "It's going to be...very difficult to attract talent to work in France...."

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